>On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Bart Coninckx wrote: >> Can 't help put thinking that this is a load of work. Hopefully the >> developpers will write some tools to simplify the restore procedure. >If you run with expunge_mode:delayed, it's as simple as using the >unexpunge command. :) >After you restore the raw files from backups, what is hard about the steps >I provided? It would be trivial to create a wrapper script which does >these steps for you I suppose. There are quite a few different ways to >restore email (single messages, entire folders, entire user hierarchy). >I'm not sure there is a one-size-fits-all solution. > Andy It's not not doable, it's only a bit ... cumbersome. Intuitively I would "reconstruct" expect to simply scavange all directories and reconstruct whatever it comes across. That would be sweet :-) Bart ---- 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