Mail not visible after restore from backup.
Tom Plancon
tplancon at bkaarchs.com
Mon Sep 15 11:17:17 EDT 2014
myEMAILsignature On 9/15/2014 11:14 AM, Nic Bernstein wrote:
> Tom,
> Glad to hear it. Please post this to the list so other folks in a
> similar situation will find it in the future.
> -nic
>
> On 09/15/2014 09:51 AM, Tom Plancon wrote:
>> Nic,
>>
>> Thanks for that! I got /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct to run as the
>> cyrus user. However, the output is this:
>>
>> reconstruct: fopen() failed for '8114.' [error=13] -- skipping.
>> reconstruct: fopen() failed for '8115.' [error=13] -- skipping.
>> reconstruct: fopen() failed for '8116.' [error=13] -- skipping.
>> reconstruct: fopen() failed for '8117.' [error=13] -- skipping.
>> .....etc.
>>
>> Ran ls -al on the Sent folder and saw that all of the emails
>> recovered from rsync were owned by root! Did a "chown cyrus.mail" on
>> all the files, ran reconstruct again, worked like a charm!
>>
>> Nice lesson here! Thank you all for the great help! My job is secure!
>>
>> myEMAILsignature Thomas Plancon
>> CAD/IT Manager
>>
>> B K A Architects, Inc.
>> 142 Crescent Street
>> Brockton, MA 02302
>>
>> tel: 508 . 583 . 5603 ext 313
>> fax: 508 . 584 . 2914
>> www.bkaarchitects.com <http://www.bkaarchs.com/>
>> On 9/15/2014 10:21 AM, Nic Bernstein wrote:
>>> I've never run reconstruct from within cyradm, so cannot speak to
>>> that, although I will note that in my version (2.4.17) the help fro
>>> cyradm says this (emphasis mine):
>>>
>>> reconstruct reconstruct mailbox /(if
>>> supported)/
>>>
>>> Look for the binary 'reconstruct' on your system. On a
>>> Fedora/RedHat/CentOS system it might be here:
>>> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct
>>>
>>> You should run this as the cyrus user. For example, as root do this:
>>> $ su cyrus -c "/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -r -f user.USER"
>>>
>>> If you don't run the command as the syruc user, the perms on the
>>> files (if any) it creates will be wrong.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -nic
>>>
>>> On 09/15/2014 09:12 AM, Tom Plancon wrote:
>>>> I inherited this installation, unfortunately!
>>>>
>>>> I'm running "reconstruct" inside cyradm. Running "version" inside
>>>> cyradm I get this:
>>>>
>>>> name : Cyrus IMAPD
>>>> version : v2.3.16-Fedora-RPM-2.3.16-6.el6_2.5 2010/01/06 17:01:32
>>>> vendor : Project Cyrus
>>>> support-url: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu
>>>> os : Linux
>>>> os-version : 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64
>>>> environment: Built w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.23
>>>> Running w/Cyrus SASL 2.1.23
>>>> Built w/Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (November 12, 2010)
>>>> Running w/Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (April 4, 2012)
>>>> Built w/OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010
>>>> Running w/OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010
>>>> Built w/zlib 1.2.3
>>>> Running w/zlib 1.2.3
>>>> CMU Sieve 2.3
>>>> TCP Wrappers
>>>> mmap = shared
>>>> lock = fcntl
>>>> nonblock = fcntl
>>>> idle = idled
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible install a version of cyradm, or is it only installed
>>>> with the cyrus-imad package?
>>>> myEMAILsignature Thomas Plancon
>>>> CAD/IT Manager
>>>>
>>>> B K A Architects, Inc.
>>>> 142 Crescent Street
>>>> Brockton, MA 02302
>>>>
>>>> tel: 508 . 583 . 5603 ext 313
>>>> fax: 508 . 584 . 2914
>>>> www.bkaarchitects.com <http://www.bkaarchs.com/>
>>>> On 9/15/2014 9:56 AM, Nic Bernstein wrote:
>>>>> Are you sure you've running a version of reconstruct which matches
>>>>> your installation? I ask because the man page for reconstruct
>>>>> from 2.3.16 shows both -r and -f as permissible:
>>>>>
>>>>> −r
>>>>>
>>>>> Recursively reconstruct all sub-mailboxes of the mailboxes or
>>>>> mailbox prefixes given as arguments.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> −f
>>>>>
>>>>> Examine the filesystem underneath mailbox, adding all
>>>>> directories with a cyrus.header found there as new mailboxes.
>>>>> Useful for restoring mailboxes from backups.
>>>>>
>>>>> from
>>>>> http://www.cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.3.16/man/reconstruct.8.php
>>>>>
>>>>> Depending upon how you installed Cyrus, from package or source,
>>>>> and which OS/distro you're using, there may be versions of binary
>>>>> utilities laying around from older versions of the software.
>>>>> We've certainly seen that before.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> -nic
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09/15/2014 08:43 AM, Tom Plancon wrote:
>>>>>> Version 2.3.16
>>>>>>
>>>>>> myEMAILsignature Thomas Plancon
>>>>>> CAD/IT Manager
>>>>>>
>>>>>> B K A Architects, Inc.
>>>>>> 142 Crescent Street
>>>>>> Brockton, MA 02302
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tel: 508 . 583 . 5603 ext 313
>>>>>> fax: 508 . 584 . 2914
>>>>>> www.bkaarchitects.com <http://www.bkaarchs.com/>
>>>>>> On 9/15/2014 9:40 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
>>>>>>> That’s estrange the -r is recursive…. that should work….
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which Cyrus version are you running?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> El 15/09/2014, a las 15:38, Tom Plancon <tplancon at bkaarchs.com
>>>>>>> <mailto:tplancon at bkaarchs.com>> escribió:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the response.
>>>>>>>> When I run "reconstruct -rf mailbox" the response is "usage:
>>>>>>>> reconstruct [-r] mailbox". I assume that means it doesn't like
>>>>>>>> the syntax.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thomas Plancon
>>>>>>>> CAD/IT Manager
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> B K A Architects, Inc.
>>>>>>>> 142 Crescent Street
>>>>>>>> Brockton, MA 02302
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> tel:508 . 583 . 5603 ext 313
>>>>>>>> fax: 508 . 584 . 2914
>>>>>>>> www.bkaarchitects.com <http://www.bkaarchs.com/>
>>>>>>>> On 9/15/2014 3:15 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> try reconstruct -rf mailbox
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> El 14/09/2014, a las 03:05, Tom Plancon <tplancon at bkaarchs.com
>>>>>>>>> <mailto:tplancon at bkaarchs.com>> escribió:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have a user that deleted all mail from his Sent folder. I
>>>>>>>>>> restored it from a rsync backup, ran "reconstruct
>>>>>>>>>> user.name.Sent". the reconstruct finished instantly, and no
>>>>>>>>>> emails from the restore can be seen in the user's mail agent,
>>>>>>>>>> (thunderbird). I konow I've run into this before but can't
>>>>>>>>>> remember the solution. Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>>> Tom Plancon
>>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> *Thomas Plancon*
>>>>>>>>>> CAD/IT Manager
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> B K A Architects, Inc.
>>>>>>>>>> 142 Crescent Street
>>>>>>>>>> Brockton, MA 02302
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> tel: 508 . 583 . 5603 ext 313
>>>>>>>>>> fax: 508 . 584 . 2914
>>>>>>>>>> www.bkaarchitects.com <http://www.bkaarchitects.com/>
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>>>>> Nic Bernsteinnic at onlight.com
>>>>> Onlight, Inc.www.onlight.com
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>>>>> Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
>>>>
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>>> 219 N. Milwaukee St., Suite 2a v. 414.272.4477
>>> Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
>>
>
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