J. Roeleveld wrote: > 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 > Hi, Excellent, that did the trick. I never needed subscribe for anything so far, so i wasn't aware that was needed in this case. thank you very much ! 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
