Recovering cyrus users and folders from backup

[Diego V]

Thanks David,

Permissions were already checked, thanks.

Issue solved.

Im ashamed though. Problem was all files were missing the final dot. Info
was recovered from the server's dead HD
with a windows application, then copied back to the new Linux server running
cyrus. Thus, files dots were ripped off in the process.

Made a little shell script to add the dot to each file and everything's fine
now.


Thanks a lot
Diego




On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:10 PM, David F Curtin
<dfcurtin at mail.fpg.unc.edu>wrote:

> If you are copying them as root, the files probably belong to root. Have
> you checked the files to see if they belong to cyrus?
> If cyrus can't access them, it can't make them available through cyrus.
>
> Dave Curtin
>
>
> On 03/11/2010 10:18 AM, Diego V wrote:
>
>>  Update from my first post:
>>
>> Created a new folder from thunderbird, copied some messages from another
>> folder into it and no problem, I can see those messages (all this  from
>> thunderbird)
>> I can see those messages on the server too of course. Now, I copy files
>> from
>> another folder into that new folder (not from the client but from the
>> server), run reconstruct and cant see them either.
>> Same thing thats keeping me from seeing the backed up folders.
>>
>>
>> Already check permissions also from cyradm:
>> lam user.diego
>> diego lrswipkxtecda
>> Pleaaasee. Somebody help me on this.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Diego
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> My cyrus server discs died and I was just able to recover some of the
>>> data.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I have almost everything from /var/spool/imap but none from /var/lib/imap
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thus I copy just one user's mailbox for testing. I created that user
>>> again
>>>
>>>
>> with cyradm, then copied all >messages to its
>> /var/spool/imap/f/user/foouser
>> folder. Run reconstruct for that mailbox.
>>
>>
>>> So far so good. Now, when trying to check mails both from outlook and
>>>
>>>
>> thunderbird I can see the folders >but no single message inside them.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Both partitions have permissions set. chown -R cyrus.mail . chmod -R 750
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Apparently, clients are looking where they should. I get these lines on
>>>
>>>
>> maillog when I ty to browse a >folder:
>>
>>
>>> open: user xxx opened INBOX.folder
>>>
>>>
>>  >open: user xxx opened INBOX.folder2
>>
>>
>>
>>> No messages are shown though but all files are on those mail folders. Ive
>>>
>>>
>> run every database or mailbox >reconstruction utility with no success.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I would really REALLY appreciate any help-
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Diego
>>>
>>>
>>
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> --
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> dfcurtin at mail.fpg.unc.edu
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