Thanks for the reply Edward, you are correct that the reconstruct was not necessary. That said, my man page says that -f isn't to force the reconstruct but rather to search the filesystem underneath the mailbox for additional mailboxes that currently aren't in mailboxes.db. Additionally it says the reconstruct will attempt to preserve all flag names, flag states, and dates: "If Reconstruct can find existing header and index files, it attempts to preserve any data in them that is not derivable from the message files themselves. The state reconstruct attempts to preserve includes the flag names, flag state, and internaldate. Reconstruct derives all other information from the message files." Either 1) I'm not understanding the man page correctly or 2) it failed to preserve the flags and didn't tell me it couldn't do so or 3) it's wrong. Brandon Poyner Network Engineer III CCAC - College Office 412-237-3086 > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Rudd [mailto:eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 9:37 PM > To: Poyner, Brandon > Cc: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: preserve message flags in upgrade > > Poyner, Brandon wrote: > > I copied a mail store from a Cyrus 2.1.12 server to a Cyrus 2.2.12 > > server, performed a reconstruct -rf on that mail store, copied and > > converted the seen file to skiplist, and finally copied the > quota file > > and ran a quota -f. The problem is that all of the flags except for > > Seen are no longer there. It's as if the reconstruct process didn't > > make the cyrus.index properly. I searched Google and read > the upgrade > > instructions to no avail. What did I do wrong, how can I fix it? > > reconstruct rebuilds the index files from scratch (and that's > where the > flags are stored) so you lose all that by forcing a reconstruct. (-f). > > You shouldn't need to use reconstruct at all during an upgrade. Just > make sure you copy all the metadata (seen, quota, sieve, and the mail > and indexes and the mailboxes.db). > > > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
