reconstruct

[John Conant]

For what it's worth, we've been doing a reconstruct on the entire 
mailstore every night for the better part of a year, without ever 
shutting down cyrus.  The reason is that we do a Trend Micro scan of the 
mailstore nightly - a couple of times a month that catches a virus which 
wasn't caught as the mail arrived (probably because of updated virus 
definitions).  Anyway, whenever Trend quarantines a message then that 
folder is corrupted, and the reconstruct fixes that.  Hasn't caused 
problems. 

That doesn't mean it's the smart thing to do, of course...

Cyrus is running on Fedora Core 3 linux.  Mailstore is 17Gb.

Daniel Eckl wrote:
> Steve Huston wrote:
>   
>> On 9/21/06 5:04 AM, Daniel Eckl wrote:
>>     
>>> Hmmm yes, I want to second that. I have often restored accidentally
>>> deleted mail folders from tape, copied them back into the mailbox
>>> structure and reconstructed the folder. I never had any issue with that...
>>>       
> [...]
>   
>> And since I can't tell from the filenames what a certain email contains,
>> the end user can go through the new folder of however-many-hundred-mails
>> to pick out the few they want, move them to where they want them, then
>> delete the rest of the folder at their leisure.
>>     
>
> Yes, that's my preferred way also. Just restore a complete folder, name
> it e.g. "RESTORED" or similar, put it in the mailbox root and make a
> reconstruct online. Then th euser can decide what to do with it.
>
> I think as well that this should be safe. Sounds very logically.
>
> Best,
> Daniel
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