On Wednesday 10 March 2010 14:14:15 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 > 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 ? Did you "subscribe" to the folders in the IMAP client? I have noticed that I don't always get subscribed to new folders if they were not created by my imap-client. -- Joost ---- 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
