restore email

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Sam wrote:

> 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?

Those are the 1., 2., 3., etc files.

 	Andy