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

[Robert Noll]

J. Roeleveld wrote:
> 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
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Hi,

Excellent, that did the trick.
I never needed subscribe for anything so far, so i wasn't aware that was 
needed in this case.
thank you very much !

regards,
Robert Noll