On Mar 29, 2008 12:24 AM, Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bart Coninckx wrote: > >>>Add "/*" and "/*/*" to the reconstruction path and it works. Gabor's >>>patch might also work for you. (I haven't tested yet) >> >>>Tom Bryntesen wrote: >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>What's the conclusion on this problem? Anyone? I'm also struggling >>>>trying to >>>>recreate a users e-mails... >>>>Running: Cyrus v2.2.12-Debian-2.2.12-4ubuntu1 with LMTPA on a >>>>Ubuntu-system... >>>>[kernel 2.6.15-27-server]... >>>> >>>>- bryntez - >> >>Reconstructs for me still aren't working, whatever suggestion I >>follow. >>What I do know is using kmail (kde) to restore all mails in a >>particular >>restored folder. Cyrus is awesome in stability and performance, but >>restoring stuff is, to say the least, a challenge. > >These are the exact steps I follow when I recover email for a user from >our tape backups: > >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. >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 *.'. >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. Create a dummy cyrus.header file "(touch RESTORE/cyrus.header; >chown >cyrus:mail RESTORE/cyrus.header; chmod 600 RESTORE/cyrus.header). >13. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -x -f >user.username'". >14. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/quota -f user.username'". > >Obviously you'll need to tweak these a bit for your environment, but >these >steps DO work. > >Andy Can 't help put thinking that this is a load of work. Hopefully the developpers will write some tools to simplify the restore procedure. ---- 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
