Marcus Schopen wrote:
Am Samstag, den 10.12.2016, 14:15 +0000 schrieb Ken Smith via
Info-cyrus:
Hi All,
I'm running 2.3.16 cyrus-imap on Centos 6.
Following a mother board failure on our primary Cyrus server we have
been using a standby server that normally gets a daily backup from the
primary. I now have the primary server running again and I'm
transferring the mailbox data back from the standby.
Through a backup anomaly there a quite a few more mail files in the
mailbox store than cyrus has in its database.
The primary server is now fine, and preparing to be live again. If I
check the content of the imap store with mutt all is well on the primary
after updating it from the standby, there's just a whole load of surplus
files in /var/spool/imap/.. that I'd like to delete.
I believe I need the -D option in cyr_expire but when I run it I get
this help text
./cyr_expire
cyr_expire [-C <altconfig>] -E <days> [-X <expunge-days>] [-p prefix]
[-a] [-v]
Is the -D option not valid in this version?
What's the simplest way to tidy the filesystem up?
I do this on some mailboxes, if I want to physically remove all mails
with deleted flag from file system:
su - cyrus -c "/usr/sbin/cyrus expire -E 1 -X 0 -D 0 -v -p
user.usermailbox"
Ciao
Marcus
Thank you for your quick reply Marcus
When I run that (like this for Centos) I get
su cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cyr_expire -E 1 -X 0 -D 0 -v -p user.kens"
Expunged 0 out of 0 messages from 0 mailboxes
I think through the backup anomaly the result is that the messages in
the surplus files have long since been deleted and expunged from a Cyrus
point of view and through the backup mistake the files that Cyrus knows
nothing about any more have been restored.
Is there a way to resolve that? EG: Extract a list of valid message
files from the database and remove those that are not referred to in there?
Thanks
Ken
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