restoration of mailboxes

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I have to restore a users mailbox with some subfolders. Because of a crash of
> the client, maybe the half of the inbox, and maybe subfolders are gone. The
> mails are gone in random order, so I have no clue which of these many mails
> are gone.
>
> Is it save, when I restore the NNN. files from backup, and run a
> reconstruct -r user.mailboxname.
>
> Is this safe to do this while cyrusd is running, or do I have to stop it?
> Are the flags, e.g. read, flagged, ... of all the mails in the mailbox
> affected by running reconstruct, or only the ones that are new from the
> backup?

I do restores with Cyrus running all the time.  If a user is accessing the 
mailbox while you are restoring it, they will probably notice some odd 
behavior though.  I don't know what happens to the message flags.

 	Andy