The man page on reconstruct doesn't suggest that it is necessary to shut down cyrus so I don't. Craig On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 08:08 -0400, John Conant wrote: > For what it's worth, we've been doing a reconstruct on the entire > mailstore every night for the better part of a year, without ever > shutting down cyrus. The reason is that we do a Trend Micro scan of > the mailstore nightly - a couple of times a month that catches a virus > which wasn't caught as the mail arrived (probably because of updated > virus definitions). Anyway, whenever Trend quarantines a message then > that folder is corrupted, and the reconstruct fixes that. Hasn't > caused problems. > > That doesn't mean it's the smart thing to do, of course... > > Cyrus is running on Fedora Core 3 linux. Mailstore is 17Gb. > > Daniel Eckl wrote: > > Steve Huston wrote: > > > > > On 9/21/06 5:04 AM, Daniel Eckl wrote: > > > > > > > Hmmm yes, I want to second that. I have often restored accidentally > > > > deleted mail folders from tape, copied them back into the mailbox > > > > structure and reconstructed the folder. I never had any issue with that... > > > > > > [...] > > > > > And since I can't tell from the filenames what a certain email contains, > > > the end user can go through the new folder of however-many-hundred-mails > > > to pick out the few they want, move them to where they want them, then > > > delete the rest of the folder at their leisure. > > > > > > > Yes, that's my preferred way also. Just restore a complete folder, name > > it e.g. "RESTORED" or similar, put it in the mailbox root and make a > > reconstruct online. Then th euser can decide what to do with it. > > > > I think as well that this should be safe. Sounds very logically. > > > > Best, > > Daniel > > ---- > > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > John Conant > > ======================================================================= > jconant@xxxxxxxxxxxx "An expert is a [person] who has made all > John Conant the mistakes which can be made in a very > Aerodyne Research, Inc. narrow field" - Niels Bohr (attrib.) > Billerica, MA 01821 > (978)663-9500, ext. 292 FAX (978)663-4918 > ======================================================================= > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
