On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 11:47 +0100, Lars Schimmer wrote: > Hi! > Aas I never needed to do it yet, I want to ask for the best way to > restore users email which got lost... > Situation: running cyrus on debian with users and mailboxes. > User deleted on accident a folder in his INBOX (and cyrus did unlinked > the files and removed the folder from disk already). > I do backup from the INBOX structures on disk every night (in a basic > simple way, see it as a snapshot of the mail disks of cyrus). > Now I need a good way to inject the "old" folder user.xyz.INBOX.Folder > into the live cyrus system. > Is it easier to create a new user and copy with imap client? > Or just copy the folder content into a new created folder on users inbox? I typically just copy the message file(s) back, or in this case the folder, and run "reconstruct -r -f -k -s user.dude". Hasn't failed me yet. A more elegant way would be nice, but until there is some type of dump/restore format, moving files around is what you've got. -- Adam Tauno Williams System Administrator, OpenGroupware Developer, LPI / CNA Fingerprint 8C08 209A FBE3 C41A DD2F A270 2D17 8FA4 D95E D383 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
