need help recovering from disk crash

[David Lang]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, David Lang wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Scott M. Likens wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you have a dump of the mailbox's (ctl_mboxlist) then you can restore
>> those, personally I back those up weekly as well as /var/spool/imap
>
> I don't think I have that.
>
>> If you don't, re-add the users, then do reconstruct -r -f user.username
>> (obviously replace username with the username in question) and it will
>> reconstruct the mailbox and find all the folders for you and add them to
>> the mailboxes db.
>>
>> Then do that on all your users, and you should be good.
>
> Ok, that's not bad.

I'm running into a problem with this, I can do this for one domain, but not for 
a second.

David Lang

>> As far as 2.3.9 vs. 2.2... if you're only dealing with the message
>> spool... it should be easy to massage it together.  if you're trying to
>> bring back duplicate, sieve, seen, etc... it might be a hassle.
>
> it would be really nice to retain the seen state, I don't care about duplicates
> and don't have sieve in use. what else would I loose?
>
>> Rather vague email I just wrote... but you seemed to have the basics...
>> if not reply all.
>
> thanks.
>
> David Lang
>
>> Scott
>>
>> dlang at diginsite.com wrote:
>>> I lost my OS drive on my home server, the mail partition was on a raid array
>>> and survived, I have some of the rest of the config info, but it looks like I
>>> lost the configdir contents (the directories are still there, but the files are
>>> missing) I may be able to recover some stuff from lost+found if I can get hints
>>> on what to search for.
>>>
>>> now, to make things more interesting, the old system was running gentoo and has
>>> cyrus 2.3.recent on it
>>>
>>> the new system is ubuntu with 2.2.something on it (I couldn't get a recent
>>> gentoo installer to run reliably on this hardware)
>>>
>>> can I make this work or should I compile 2.3.9?
>>>
>>> with reconstruct -m now working how can I recover the mailbox?
>>>
>>> the good news is that I only have 3 users on the system (with about 3G of mail
>>> in several hundred folders betwen us) so manual fixes may be practical
>>>
>>> the config files were saved, and are:
>>>
>>> #cat imapd.conf |grep -v "^#" |grep "^[a-z]"
>>> configdirectory:        /var/imap
>>> partition-default:      /movies/imap
>>> sievedir:               /var/imap/sieve
>>> virtdomains:            yes
>>> admins:                 cyrus
>>> hashimapspool:          yes
>>> allowanonymouslogin:    no
>>> allowplaintext:         yes
>>> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>>> sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>>> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>>>
>>>
>>> # cat cyrus.conf |grep -v "^ *#" |grep "[a-z]"
>>>    recover       cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r"
>>>    idled         cmd="idled"
>>>    imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap2" prefork=0
>>>    pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop-3" prefork=0
>>>    imaps         cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0
>>>    pop3s         cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=0
>>>    sieve         cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0
>>>    lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=0
>>>    checkpoint    cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30
>>>    delprune      cmd="ctl_deliver -E 3" period=1440
>>>    tlsprune      cmd="tls_prune" period=1440
>>> root at asgard:/etc# cat cyrus.conf |grep -v "^ *#" |grep "[a-z{}]"
>>> START {
>>>    recover       cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -r"
>>>    idled         cmd="idled"
>>> }
>>> SERVICES {
>>>    imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap2" prefork=0
>>>    pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop-3" prefork=0
>>>    imaps         cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0
>>>    pop3s         cmd="pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=0
>>>    sieve         cmd="timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0
>>>    lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=0
>>> }
>>> EVENTS {
>>>    checkpoint    cmd="ctl_cyrusdb -c" period=30
>>>    delprune      cmd="ctl_deliver -E 3" period=1440
>>>    tlsprune      cmd="tls_prune" period=1440
>>> }
>>>
>>> David Lang
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