Hello Patrick and Cyrus friends, On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:27:09PM -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: > On 12/09/2014 09:36 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote: > >> Is there nobody with a good suggestion? > > > > Not really. Most people seem to be using LVM snapshots. > > OK, I'll bite. Since a couple of times I've had to restore mail using > reconstruct after having lost all the metadata, I'm wondering what the > point is of either cyrdump or ctl_mboxlist list if you can't restore the > mail spool from their outputs? > > What does cyrdump do, anyway? I would expect it to also backup all the > metadata; else it amounts to tar'ing up ~/cyrus/user. > > > ---- > 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 It is indeed interesting to figure out that there is a tool to dump mail data into a file, but there is no tool to perform the opposite. Can at least someone point out the procedure how to restore the mail folder of user.$USER from the cyrdump and ctl_mboxlist files? Are these files even sufficient for a total restore? I'm not sure what you mean with ``all the metadata'', but there are user flags saved into the cyrdump file as well. I never performed the whole cycle of dump and restore (probably nobody did so far), so I cannot tell you that all metadata is available in the dump file. See my question above! I'm contemplating about the relevance of cyrdump and ctl_mboxlist route. Of course the snapshot route or imapsync offer different and maybe easier routes to achieve the same goal: Transfer mail data from server A to server B, but maybe there are situations where cyrdump and ctl_mboxlist show their merits. For example, if someone does not have the possibility to run an imap server on server B. But what is definitely missing in the cyrus-imapd documentation is a chapter about backup and restore. The possible different routes should be addressed. It might be sufficient to draw the red line and refer to different documentation. And if cyrdump-ctl_mboxlist-route is not (yet) the way to go, then please state this as well. It can save time and frustration. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, With kind regards, Mit freundlichen Gruessen, De jrus wah, Wiel ************************************* W.K. Offermans Powered by .... (__) \\\'',) \/ \ ^ .\._/_) www.FreeBSD.org ---- 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
