Andrew Morgan wrote:
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Sam wrote:
Hi,
I want to restore some email from the email backup directory.
I created a directory called "backup" in a user/me directory, and
executed reconsturct from cyrus, but after relogin the mail client, I
don't see user/me/backup exist from the mail client.
I want to copy all the following backup file to the user/me/backup/
folder, so that the mail client can browse thru all backup email from
that folder without mess up the new emails.
Can anyone please tell me how to do that in cyrus?
Here are the steps I use to restore mail for a user:
1. Locate user's mail directory
(/var/spool/cyrus/mail/prefix/user/username).
2. Change to that directory.
3. Make a RESTORE directory (mkdir RESTORE).
4. Fix ownership/perms (chown cyrus:mail RESTORE; chmod 700 RESTORE).
5. Change to the directory containing the mail folder the user wants
restored.
6. Run 'recover', the Legato backup client.
Hi I am not using Legato backup client. What I have is only a copy of
the user /mail/imap/spool/user/sam directory.
eg.
# ls -l
total 52
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Aug 1 17:24 Drafts
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Aug 1 17:24 Sent Items
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Aug 1 17:24 Trash
-rw------- 1 root wheel 4 Aug 1 17:24 cyrus.cache
-rw------- 1 root wheel 179 Aug 1 17:24 cyrus.header
-rw------- 1 root wheel 76 Aug 1 17:24 cyrus.index
-rw------- 1 root wheel 39983 Aug 1 17:24 cyrus.squat
Can I just copy the older fodlers/files from the backup server to the
production mail server and execute steps 12 and 13 as you mentioned below?
Thanks
Sam
7. 'changetime' to change the time to recover data from.
8. 'add filename' to add the files to restore. To restore all the
messages in the folder, use 'add *. cyrus.header'.
9. 'relocate RESTORE' to recover files into the RESTORE directory
instead of the current directory.
10. 'recover' to recover the files.
11. 'quit' to quit out of the recover program.
12. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -f
user.username'".
13. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/quota -f user.username'".
Andy
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