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

[J. Roeleveld]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 14:14:15 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
> 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 ?

Did you "subscribe" to the folders in the IMAP client?
I have noticed that I don't always get subscribed to new folders if they were 
not created by my imap-client.

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Joost