Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 03/10/2010 09:14 AM, Robert Noll wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -fr user/albert/myrestore > ? > > > Hi, i just tried that ( cyrus@mailserver$ /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -fr user/albert/myrestore ) it outputs the mailbox folders, but still no subfolders visible in the email/imap client and webmail i also tried $ /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 restart but still empty. they are listed when doing cyradmin : lm user/albert/* anything else i need to restart to get them to show up ? 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
