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For what it's worth, we've been doing a reconstruct on the entire
mailstore every night for the better part of a year, without ever
shutting down cyrus. The reason is that we do a Trend Micro scan of
the mailstore nightly - a couple of times a month that catches a virus
which wasn't caught as the mail arrived (probably because of updated
virus definitions). Anyway, whenever Trend quarantines a message then
that folder is corrupted, and the reconstruct fixes that. Hasn't
caused problems. <br>
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That doesn't mean it's the smart thing to do, of course...<br>
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Cyrus is running on Fedora Core 3 linux. Mailstore is 17Gb.<br>
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Daniel Eckl wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Steve Huston wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 9/21/06 5:04 AM, Daniel Eckl wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hmmm yes, I want to second that. I have often restored accidentally
deleted mail folders from tape, copied them back into the mailbox
structure and reconstructed the folder. I never had any issue with that...
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<pre wrap="">And since I can't tell from the filenames what a certain email contains,
the end user can go through the new folder of however-many-hundred-mails
to pick out the few they want, move them to where they want them, then
delete the rest of the folder at their leisure.
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Yes, that's my preferred way also. Just restore a complete folder, name
it e.g. "RESTORED" or similar, put it in the mailbox root and make a
reconstruct online. Then th euser can decide what to do with it.
I think as well that this should be safe. Sounds very logically.
Best,
Daniel
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