For a totally less seamless solution:
What if I created the partition and created the empty mailboxes then
moved the restored mail back in as "restored-foldername" This would ruin
the seen.db, but...at least it would all be there in a pretty logical
location.
Please weight in on this and tell me if you think it's feasible/advisable.
Thanks you SO MUCH!
Joe
Joe Vieira wrote:
> Does any one know which cyrus file contains this? Can I copy it over
> without the others?
>
> Joe
>
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Joe Vieira wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> So, We have an imap volume (ext3) that doesn't seem to come back up
>>> clean after a few crashes. fsck is a mess. Shows clean; mount it; 30
>>> minutes later it's throwing errors and needs to be fsck'd again. (any
>>> ideas about that i'd love to hear)
>>>
>>> So I am considering in the interest of getting these students back using
>>> email, setting up a new volume, mount it as the same imap partition and
>>> creating "shell" mailboxes for all the users on it, basically an empty
>>> mailbox that I can let them log into, send and receive new mail, etc.
>>> I was thinking about doing this by making the simple directory structure
>>> for all the users then doing a reconstruct to make the cyrus.* files.
>>> The plan would then be to restore from backup (or the corrupt drive in
>>> read only). My concern however is that the UID of the messages will get
>>> duplicated. Basically does this idea make ANY sense to you guys? Will
>>> it work? Other ideas?
>>>
>>>
>> One of those cyrus.* files should contain the max UID - I can't remember
>> which. If you can restore/copy that across, it should (I think) number
>> any new messages starting from there. Then you can restore/copy the
>> original messages across later.
>>
>> I've never tried this before, so I may be getting it wrong. Hopefully
>> someone with more in-depth knowledge of Cyrus can comment.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
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