Hello Cyrus Friends, On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 01:01:52PM +0100, Willy Offermans wrote: > Dear Cyrus friends, > > I want to simulate a possible crash of the company's mail server. > At the moment the server works smoothly, but you never know... It is best > to be prepared for it and to have possibilities to restore critical data. > E-mail info was appointed to be one of the critical data. > > So I picked one user and cyrdump his data into a file. > > ``cyrdump -v user.$USER > /tmp/$USER.dump'' > > If I make a quick scan of the file, it looks like a dump of mails of the > user. Moreover, there is flag info per mail subfolder. There is info about > subfolders and there is info about the mail IDs in each subfolder. > Summarized, there is all the info needed to reconstruct the user's > mailfolder and mails. > > I created the mailbox lists > > su - cyrus -c "ctl_mboxlist -d" > /tmp/mailboxes.txt > > Now I want to restore the data of user.$USER on a different server. > > How should I proceed? I might write a script to reconstruct the data from > the $USER.dump file, but I guess there is already a tool to do so. However > I'm not aware of such tool and moreover I cannot find any info on > http://www.cyrusimap.org/ concerning this. Can someone help me out? > > To my opinion, the restore procedure should be well documented. > > -- Is there nobody with a good suggestion? -- Met vriendelijke groeten, With kind regards, Mit freundlichen Gruessen, De jrus wah, Wiel ************************************* W.K. Offermans ---- 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
