how to restore a backup of single mailbox/folder with many subfolders without disturbing the other mailboxes

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 03/10/2010 09:14 AM, Robert Noll wrote:
> Patrick Boutilier wrote:
>> On 03/10/2010 06:52 AM, Robert Noll wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> i'd like to ask for advice on how to restore a backup of single mailbox
>>> without disturbing the other mailboxes.
>>>
>>> Let's say user albert deleted an important folder with many (100+,
>>> hierarchy) subfolders accidentally.
>>> A complete system backup from yesterday evening is available,
>>> but i don't want to restore the whole mail-system to the state of yesterday
>>> because that would mean other users would loose anything that has
>>> happened since then (sent, received etc).
>>>
>>> Following some info i found,
>>> i created a new mailbox folder for the user in the mailsystem
>>> (albert/myrestore)  ,
>>> restored the files from the backup system in there,
>>> and ran   reconstruct -r albert/myrestore
>>>
>>> while the mails directly inside the folder are now visible correctly,
>>> the subfolders are not visible,
>>> any idea how to solve this ?
>>>
>>
>> Try the -f option with reconstruct.
>>
>> -f     Examine the filesystem underneath mailbox, adding all directories
>> with a cyrus.header found there as new mailboxes.  Useful for
>>                 restoring mailboxes from backups.
>>
>>
>>
>>> please advise =)
>>> Regards,
>>> Robert Noll
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> Thanks for the reply,
> using -f from within cyradm gave me an error
>
> cyrus at mailserver$ cyradm localhost
> ... pw entry ...
> localhost>  reconstruct -f user/albert/myrestore
>
> usage: reconstruct [-r] mailbox
>
> but manually calling  /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -f user/albert/myrestore


/usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -fr user/albert/myrestore
  ?



> said it has discovered the subfolders,
> however they still do not show up in imap client,
> even after running
> reconstruct -f user/albert/myrestore from cyradm
> again, logging out and back in, using a webmail instead of imapclient etc...
> nothing helped =(
>
> maybe old version ? cyradm : "version" says : v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-10
> 2006/11/13 16:17:53
> server is debian etch
> dpkg --list | grep cyrus
> ii  cyrus-admin-2.2                2.2.13-10
> Cyrus mail system (administration tools)
> ii  cyrus-common-2.2               2.2.13-10
> Cyrus mail system (common files)
> ii  cyrus-imapd-2.2                2.2.13-10
> Cyrus mail system (IMAP support)
> ii  libcyrus-imap-perl22           2.2.13-10
> Interface to Cyrus imap client imclient libr
>
> i'm a bit scared of updating cyrus however,
> would be a problem to have a broken mailsystem for a few days
>
> do you think it should work in my current version ?
> am i using the cyrreconstruct or cyradm wrong ?
>
> please advise
> Regards,
> Robert Noll
>
>
>
>
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