hello guys I have created a backup of my running IMAP server (cyrus-imapd version 2.3.11-1) and followed the official guide on [1]. Unfortunately I forgot to preserve the permission and owner:group information while creating the backup. Now I would like to restore the server on a Fedora 11 system running cyrus-imapd version 2.3.14-1. The steps I did so far $ mv /var/spool/imap /var/spool/imap.old $ mv /var/lib/imap /var/lib/imap.old $ cp -R backup/var/spool/imap /var/spool/imap $ chown -R cyrus:mail /var/spool/imap $ cp -R backup/var/lib/imap /var/lib/imap $ chown -R cyrus:mail /var/lib/imap This is what my /var/log/maillog yells after starting the server with /etc/init.d/cyrus-imap start ------------------------------------ Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius cvt_cyrusdb[10228]: mystore: reusing txn 2147483654 [...] Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius cvt_cyrusdb[10228]: mycommit: committing txn 2147483654 Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10239]: process started Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10241]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10241]: recovering cyrus databases Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10241]: skiplist: recovered /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db (36 records, 14104 bytes) in 0 seconds Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10241]: skiplist: recovered /var/lib/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10241]: done recovering cyrus databases Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10242]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/idled Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10239]: unable to create sieve listener socket: Permission denied Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10239]: ready for work Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10244]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10246]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius imap[10246]: executed Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10248]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/lmtpd Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius master[10249]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius imap[10249]: executed Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius lmtpunix[10248]: executed Jul 18 13:48:27 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: checkpointing cyrus databases Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: archiving database file: /var/lib/imap/annotations.db Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: archiving database file: /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: archiving log file: /var/lib/imap/db/log.0000000001 Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius ctl_cyrusdb[10244]: done checkpointing cyrus databases Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius master[10239]: process 10244 exited, status 0 Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius master[10250]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius master[10251]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius imap[10250]: executed Jul 18 13:48:28 celsius imap[10251]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10255]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10255]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10256]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10257]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10257]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10256]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10258]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10259]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10258]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10259]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10260]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10260]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10255]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10255]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10256]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10257]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10257]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10256]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10258]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10259]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10258]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10259]: executed Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius master[10260]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd Jul 18 13:48:30 celsius imap[10260]: executed ------------------------------------ And then later on when trying to access my mailbox using Evolution ------------------------------------ [...] Jul 18 13:49:03 celsius imap[10249]: IOERROR: opening /var/spool/imap/s/user/sp4rc/archive/cyrus.header: Permission denied [...] ------------------------------------ I can see the messages within Evolution including date and subject line, but when clicking on a mail item I receive: ------------------------------------ Unable to retrieve message IMAP command failed: Please select a mailbox first ------------------------------------ So I am little stuck here and would really be happy if someone could give me a helping hand on this... 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