recovery from complete loss of mailboxes.db?

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Hi -

I'm assembling some system documentation for a client and have been pouring over my cyrus notes and looking at the man pages. A couple of questions, starting with the simple one.

annotations.db: "This database contains mailbox and server annotations."

I still have no idea what this is used for. Can someone give me an example of a mailbox or server annotation.

Next: Suppose I've completely lost /var/imap/mailboxes.db as well as /var/imap/db.backup1 and /var/imap/db.backup2. Is there any way to recover from this? Given that

    /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r -f user/userN

will add missing mailfolders to mailboxes.db, can I reconstruct mailboxes.db by simply iterating over all mailbox directories?

  # cd /srv/imap/user
  # for i in $(ls)
  # /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r -f user/$i
  # done

?


Finally a note on the documentation:

On this page:

  https://cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/faqs/o-reconstruct.html

one finds the following comment: "If you do find yourself with a corrupted mailboxes.db, there are a few things you can try. The first is to see if db_recover can recover your database."

However, there is no db_recover listed under Tools & Utilities here:

  https://cyrusimap.org/

/usr/bin/db_recover is installed on my system, so it exists, but there isn't a man page for it, either, leading to wonder how one is supposed to know what the syntax is for this command.

I guess that wasn't actually the final question. I'm currently running version 2.5.10 and am thinking about upgrading to 3.0.1. The default db format appears to be Twoskip, and I'm pretty sure that all my db files are Skiplists. Is this going to be like the Berkeley DB to Skiplist thing when upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4, where all the Berkeley DB databases were automatically converted to Skiplists, or does a conversion to Twoskip require some manual intervention?

Thanks in advance.
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