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. >> 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. > > > >> please advise =) >> Regards, >> Robert Noll >> ---- >> 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 >> > > ---- > 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 > Thanks for the reply, using -f from within cyradm gave me an error cyrus@mailserver$ cyradm localhost ... pw entry ... localhost> reconstruct -f user/albert/myrestore usage: reconstruct [-r] mailbox but manually calling /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -f user/albert/myrestore said it has discovered the subfolders, however they still do not show up in imap client, even after running reconstruct -f user/albert/myrestore from cyradm again, logging out and back in, using a webmail instead of imapclient etc... nothing helped =( maybe old version ? cyradm : "version" says : v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-10 2006/11/13 16:17:53 server is debian etch dpkg --list | grep cyrus ii cyrus-admin-2.2 2.2.13-10 Cyrus mail system (administration tools) ii cyrus-common-2.2 2.2.13-10 Cyrus mail system (common files) ii cyrus-imapd-2.2 2.2.13-10 Cyrus mail system (IMAP support) ii libcyrus-imap-perl22 2.2.13-10 Interface to Cyrus imap client imclient libr i'm a bit scared of updating cyrus however, would be a problem to have a broken mailsystem for a few days do you think it should work in my current version ? am i using the cyrreconstruct or cyradm wrong ? please advise Regards, Robert Noll ---- 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
