Hi Simon - thanks for the reply. I apologize for being remiss in providing the necessary info; I know better than that. Simon Matter wrote: > what version you are running. cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-1.1.fc3 > cyrus-imapd really doesn't like disk full problems! I'm gathering that! :-) > Do you have backups of the box? I do - but they're 5 weeks old - I backup to my home system, and we just moved. I haven't plugged in my home server and backup system since. If possible, I would like to recover the users mailboxes as currently as possible. > If you told us what's still there in your /var/lib/imap/ . ./sieve ./db.backup2 ./db.backup2/mailboxes.db ./db.backup2/log.0000000017 ./db.backup2/annotations.db ./deliver.db ./db.backup1 ./db.backup1/mailboxes.db ./db.backup1/log.0000000017 ./db.backup1/annotations.db ./quota ./mailboxes.db ./log ./log/shane ./log/shane/14936 .... skipping a bunch of ./log/shane/ stuff .... ./socket ./socket/pop3-0.lock ./socket/pop3-1.lock ./socket/imap-1.lock ./socket/imap-0.lock ./socket/imaps-1.lock ./socket/pop3s-1.lock ./socket/idle ./socket/pop3s-0.lock ./socket/sieve-1.lock ./socket/imaps-0.lock ./socket/lmtpunix-0.lock ./socket/lmtp ./proc ./proc/8600 .... skipping a bunch of ./proc/ stuff .... ./msg ./rpm ./rpm/cvt_cyrusdb_all.log ./tls_sessions.db ./.viminfo ./db ./db/__db.003 ./db/skipstamp ./db/__db.005 ./db/__db.002 ./db/log.0000000017 ./db/__db.001 ./db/__db.004 ./user ./user/s ./user/s/shane.seen ./user/s/shane.sub .... skipping a bunch of ./user/X/ stuff .... ./annotations.db ./backup ./backup/mboxlist.1.gz ./backup/mboxlist.gz > su - cyrus -c "gzip -cd /var/lib/imap/backup/mboxlist.gz | > /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_mboxlist -u" > > Maybe do have to remove the old db's first, maybe you even have to remove > /var/lib/imap/db/* and /var/lib/imap/db.backup? before. Thanks for the thoughts here - I wasn't able to get any of this to work. the ctl_mboxlist command worked without complaint, but on startup, I get the same issue (summarized log entry): you are using /var/lib/imap/sieve as your sieve directory. fatal error: can't open old database Converting from /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db (berkeley) to /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db.flat (flat) ERROR: unable to convert /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db from berkeley to flat Is there a way to manually convert the existing Imap Mailboxes to a flat format, then rebuild the cyrus-imapd stuff again from scratch, then re-import the mailboxes? I have to admit, I don't know much about cyrus-imap, and there seems to be precious little doc on the cyrus website on problem recovery steps. Alternatively, can I just comment out the cvt_cyrusdb_all step in the startup? Is the actual cyrus-imapd service dependent on the cvt_cyrusdb_all step? > Once cyrus-imapd is running again, you may try to "reconstruct -rf" all > your mailboxes to update you mailboxes db. ...since I couldn't get cyrus_imap running in the first place, I didn't try this. Thanks a ton for the start on pointers, Simon! --Shane ---- 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
