On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
Using Cyrus IMAP 2.3.3 on Solaris 9. Let's say I'm restoring a subfolder "test" of a mailbox "user.me", and all I have are the message files. So here is what the user/me directory looks like: -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 3145 Dec 29 16:02 1. -rw------- 2 cyrus mail 3133 Dec 29 16:03 2. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 682 Jan 13 12:38 3. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 688 Jan 13 12:54 4. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 526 Feb 14 10:00 5. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 546 Feb 15 12:38 6. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 672 Feb 27 14:35 7. -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 6044 Apr 12 16:44 cyrus.cache -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 157 Apr 12 16:44 cyrus.header -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 580 Apr 12 16:44 cyrus.index drwx------ 2 cyrus mail 512 Apr 12 16:41 test and here is what the user/me/test directory looks like: -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 94558 Mar 14 16:22 2. I need to somehow generate the cyrus.* files in the test subdirectory and add it to the mailbox database. What reconstruct command will do that? In the old days, a "reconstruct -m" and "reconstruct user.me.test" would do the job (with a large overhead for the -m command), but -m is no longer functional. The -x and -f options look hopeful, but they won't add the mailbox to the database unless the cyrus.* files are present. And "reconstruct user.me.test" or "reconstruct -r user.me" won't create the cyrus.* files because the mailbox is not in the mailbox database. What is the best way to handle this?
When I restore a folder from backups, I usually restore all the message files, plus the cyrus.header file. Then I run reconstruct -f on the mailbox.
If you don't have the cyrus.header file for user/me/test, I think you have 2 options:
1. Copy the cyrus.header file from the parent mailbox (user/me) and run reconstruct -f.
2. Create the folder first using cyradm, then copy the message file into it and run reconstruct -f.
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