mailbox migration/repair question

[Joe Vieira]

For a totally less seamless solution:

    What if I created the partition and created the empty mailboxes then 
moved the restored mail back in as "restored-foldername" This would ruin 
the seen.db, but...at least it would all be there in a pretty logical 
location.

Please weight in on this and tell me if you think it's feasible/advisable.

Thanks you SO MUCH!

Joe

Joe Vieira wrote:
> Does any one know which cyrus file contains this?  Can I copy it over 
> without the others?
>
> Joe
>
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Joe Vieira wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> So, We have an imap volume (ext3) that doesn't seem to come back up 
>>> clean after a few crashes.  fsck is a mess.  Shows clean; mount it; 30 
>>> minutes later it's throwing errors and needs to be fsck'd again.  (any 
>>> ideas about that i'd love to hear)
>>>
>>> So I am considering in the interest of getting these students back using 
>>> email, setting up a new volume, mount it as the same imap partition and 
>>> creating "shell" mailboxes for all the users on it, basically an empty 
>>> mailbox that I can let them log into, send and receive new mail, etc. 
>>> I was thinking about doing this by making the simple directory structure 
>>> for all the users then doing a reconstruct to make the cyrus.* files. 
>>> The plan would then be to restore from backup (or the corrupt drive in 
>>> read only). My concern however is that the UID of the messages will get 
>>> duplicated.  Basically does this idea make ANY sense to you guys?  Will 
>>> it work?  Other ideas?
>>>     
>>>       
>> One of those cyrus.* files should contain the max UID - I can't remember 
>> which.  If you can restore/copy that across, it should (I think) number 
>> any new messages starting from there.  Then you can restore/copy the 
>> original messages across later.
>>
>> I've never tried this before, so I may be getting it wrong.  Hopefully 
>> someone with more in-depth knowledge of Cyrus can comment.
>>
>>  	Andy
>>   
>>     
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