On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 07:06 -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 03/10/2010 06:52 AM, Robert Noll wrote: > > Hi all, > > i'd like to ask for advice on how to restore a backup of single mailbox > > without disturbing the other mailboxes. > > Let's say user albert deleted an important folder with many (100+, > > hierarchy) subfolders accidentally. If you enable delayed expunge you can save yourself a lot of this kind of work. This is one of the best features ever. > > A complete system backup from yesterday evening is available, > > but i don't want to restore the whole mail-system to the state of yesterday > > because that would mean other users would loose anything that has > > happened since then (sent, received etc) > > Following some info i found, > > i created a new mailbox folder for the user in the mailsystem > > (albert/myrestore) , > > restored the files from the backup system in there, > > and ran reconstruct -r albert/myrestore > > while the mails directly inside the folder are now visible correctly, > > the subfolders are not visible, > > any idea how to solve this ? > Try the -f option with reconstruct. > -f Examine the filesystem underneath mailbox, adding all directories > with a cyrus.header found there as new mailboxes. Useful for > restoring mailboxes from backups. It may not be necessary but I usually remove all permissions from the folder except for the cyrus admin before I restore/reconstruct a folder. Hopefully that will keep someone from trying to access the folder during the operation; and harassing the help desk. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba ---- 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
