On 12/05/11 15:19 -0300, Fabio S. Schmidt wrote: >I'd like to learn some methods to recover a Cyrus Backend, currently I am >able to restore with the mailboxes list exported using "ctl_mboxlist". There are several databases that you should probably be backing up. See: http://www.cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.8/internal/database-formats.php Everything except the *_cache databases contain persistent data. I believe most of those are contained underneath your configured 'configdirectory' location. >But, how can I restore the mailboxes if I dont have the mailboxes list >exported? Assuming I have only the mailboxes directories, how could I >rebuild the mailboxes.db? I'm using cyrus 2.4.6. You could probably generate a mailbox list with a bit of wrangling with: find . -type d underneath your mail spool, and then use cvt_cyrusdb or cyr_dbtool to insert that database back into your mailboxes db. >Just another question, is there any way to rebuild the mailboxes list from >a mailboxes.db file? mailboxes.db is your mailbox database. You can use 'file mailboxes.db' to determine which database format you're using. In the event of a recovery (assuming all software versions are the same), copying over everything under 'configdirectory' is a good first step. You can also use cvt_cyrusdb to dump the contents of mailboxes.db into a flat text format. -- Dan White ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
