[Server-Team] Strange problem on annotations after migration x86 -> x86_64

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Alain Abbas wrote:
> Feed back about this Error :
> 
> I didnt find a way to transfer the annotations from x86 to x86_64
> I tried in skiplist in DB
> with db_dump , db_load ....
> I had to write again the annotation by hand (500 users) with all the
> problems and i lost
> all the Synchronization datas for z-push that means more 50 phones empty
> with the activesync
> datas and kolab-type corrupted (the 4 first characters missing like
> Kolab-type)
> I didnt found a way to export this private datas (from the old serve)
> with the manager (read) and write again
> 
> That ask to me 2 questions :
> 1) There is a way to dump the annotations (public and private values)
> like in Ldap with  slapcat and slapadd ?

Try the cvt_cyrusdb utility, which can dump any database to a plain text 
version (called 'flat'), after which you could remove the original copy and 
convert it back to database from the flag.

> 2) It is really the good way to store some datas ? if we are no strong
> and easy methods to backup  and restore them
> with granularity
> 

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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