restore email

[Sam]

Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Sam wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I found that reconstruct didn't work quite right unless I only had the 
> message files and the cyrus.header file (don't copy over the other 
> cyrus.xxx files).
>
> Don't forget to set the unix ownership and permissions to whatever 
> your cyrus user is.
>
Hi, I found the cyrus.header file, but which message files?

Sam
>     Andy
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