Reconstruct oddity

[Jo Rhett]

This is well known problem being tracked in bug 2894 in the cyrus  
bugzilla.  Log in, vote for it.  It will get fixed whenever someone  
at CMU decides they care enough.

On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Geoff Pryke wrote:
> I have a problem with reconstruct.  A partition which got lost and  
> then restored has a number of a user's mailboxes on it.  Via Imap,  
> many of these mailboxes seem empty, so I used /usr/cyrus/bin/ 
> reconstruct -r user.Username to hopefully readd the data.  However,  
> this does not appear to work. Trying /usr/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r - 
> f user.Username also does not do the required, yet the files are on  
> disk.  One problem that may be exacerbating the situation is that  
> some of this user's mailboxes are on one cyrus partition and some  
> on another and the partition I am working on is not the one that  
> mbpath returns.  But the mailboxes are definitely on that partition  
> as a dump of the mailboxes database indicates that they are.
>
> So where from here ?  Is there an easy way out - maybe force all  
> the user's mailboxes to go onto the correct (as far as mbpath goes)  
> partition and reconstruct... Advice most welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> Geoff
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