cyrdump: restoring the dump

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Alexandros Vellis wrote:

> My goal is to backup some pretty large mailboxes and then restore them
> to a brand new, clean Cyrus installation, and the cyrdump output seems
> ideal to this, as it has all the useful metadata.

You should just be able to take the mailbox files verbatim.  They aren't
architechure-dependent.

Note that you will lose seen state, as that data is kept separate from the
mailboxes (this is the case with cyrdump as well).

-Rob

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