restore email

[Sam]

Andrew Morgan wrote:
> 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.
>
I m not too sure what these files are.
Here is the content of the directory:

# tar -zpcvf sam.tgz *
a 230.
a Drafts
a Drafts/cyrus.header
a Drafts/cyrus.cache
a Drafts/cyrus.index
a Drafts/cyrus.squat
a Sent Items
a Sent Items/cyrus.cache
a Sent Items/1.
a Sent Items/cyrus.squat
a Sent Items/2.
a Sent Items/cyrus.header
a Sent Items/cyrus.index
a Sent Items/3.
a Sent Items/4.
a Sent Items/5.
a Sent Items/6.
a Sent Items/7.
a Sent Items/10.
a Sent Items/11.
a Sent Items/12.
a Sent Items/13.
a Sent Items/8.
a Sent Items/9.
a Sent Items/14.
a Trash
a Trash/cyrus.cache
a Trash/cyrus.squat
a Trash/28.
a Trash/29.
a Trash/30.
a Trash/31.
a Trash/32.
a Trash/33.
a Trash/34.
a Trash/cyrus.header
a Trash/cyrus.index
a backup
a cyrus.cache
a cyrus.header
a cyrus.index
a cyrus.squat

I fond some 1,2,3... files here, but they don't belong to the Received 
or Inbox folders (there is no such folders here in the backup directory).

Thanks
Sam
>     Andy
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