reconstruct doing nothing

[Bart Coninckx]

On Mar 29, 2008 12:24 AM, Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bart Coninckx wrote:
>
>>>Add "/*" and "/*/*" to the reconstruction path and it works. Gabor's
>>>patch might also work for you. (I haven't tested yet)
>>
>>>Tom Bryntesen wrote:
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>What's the conclusion on this problem? Anyone? I'm also struggling
>>>>trying to
>>>>recreate a users e-mails...
>>>>Running: Cyrus v2.2.12-Debian-2.2.12-4ubuntu1 with LMTPA on a
>>>>Ubuntu-system...
>>>>[kernel 2.6.15-27-server]...
>>>>
>>>>- bryntez -
>>
>>Reconstructs for me still aren't working, whatever suggestion I
>>follow.
>>What I do know is using kmail (kde) to restore all mails in a
>>particular
>>restored folder. Cyrus is awesome in stability and performance, but
>>restoring stuff is, to say the least, a challenge.
>
>These are the exact steps I follow when I recover email for a user from
>our tape backups:
>
>1. Locate user's mail directory
>(/var/spool/cyrus/mail/prefix/user/username).
>2. Change to that directory.
>3. Make a RESTORE directory (mkdir RESTORE).
>4. Fix ownership/perms (chown cyrus:mail RESTORE; chmod 700 RESTORE).
>5. Change to the directory containing the mail folder the user wants
>restored.
>6. Run 'recover', the Legato backup client.
>7. 'changetime' to change the time to recover data from.
>8. 'add filename' to add the files to restore. To restore all the
>messages in the folder, use 'add *.'.
>9. 'relocate RESTORE' to recover files into the RESTORE directory
>instead
>of the current directory.
>10. 'recover' to recover the files.
>11. 'quit' to quit out of the recover program.
>12. Create a dummy cyrus.header file "(touch RESTORE/cyrus.header;
>chown
>cyrus:mail RESTORE/cyrus.header; chmod 600 RESTORE/cyrus.header).
>13. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -x -f
>user.username'".
>14. Run "su cyrus -c '/usr/local/cyrus/bin/quota -f user.username'".
>
>Obviously you'll need to tweak these a bit for your environment, but
>these
>steps DO work.
>
>Andy

Can 't help put thinking that this is a load of work. Hopefully the
developpers will write some tools to simplify the restore procedure.