restore email

[Sam]

Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Sam wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to restore some email from the email backup directory.
>> I created a directory called "backup" in a user/me directory, and 
>> executed reconsturct from cyrus, but after relogin the mail client, I 
>> don't see user/me/backup exist from the mail client.
>>
>> I want to copy all the following backup file to the user/me/backup/ 
>> folder, so that the mail client can browse thru all backup email from 
>> that folder without mess up the new emails.
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me how to do that in cyrus?
>
> Here are the steps I use to restore mail for a user:
>
> 1. Locate user's mail directory 
> (/var/spool/cyrus/mail/prefix/user/username).
> 2. Change to that directory.
> 3. Make a RESTORE directory (mkdir RESTORE).
> 4. Fix ownership/perms (chown cyrus:mail RESTORE; chmod 700 RESTORE).
> 5. Change to the directory containing the mail folder the user wants 
> restored.
> 6. Run 'recover', the Legato backup client.
Hi I am not using Legato backup client. What I have is only a copy of 
the user /mail/imap/spool/user/sam directory.
eg.
# ls -l
total 52
drwx------  2 root  wheel    512 Aug  1 17:24 Drafts
drwx------  2 root  wheel    512 Aug  1 17:24 Sent Items
drwx------  2 root  wheel    512 Aug  1 17:24 Trash
-rw-------  1 root  wheel      4 Aug  1 17:24 cyrus.cache
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    179 Aug  1 17:24 cyrus.header
-rw-------  1 root  wheel     76 Aug  1 17:24 cyrus.index
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  39983 Aug  1 17:24 cyrus.squat

Can I just copy the older fodlers/files from the backup server to the 
production mail server and execute steps 12 and 13 as you mentioned below?

Thanks
Sam
> 7. 'changetime' to change the time to recover data from.
> 8. 'add filename' to add the files to restore.  To restore all the 
> messages in the folder, use 'add *. cyrus.header'.
> 9. 'relocate RESTORE' to recover files into the RESTORE directory 
> instead of the current directory.
> 10. 'recover' to recover the files.
> 11. 'quit' to quit out of the recover program.
> 12. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -f 
> user.username'".
> 13. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/quota -f user.username'".
>
>
>     Andy
>
>