On 1/15/06, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I have a recent (~10 hrs old) backup of the mailspool in > /var/spool/cyrus, I do not have a backup of /var/lib/cyrus. Is there > an easy way to restore the mailboxes file and the other database > files, maybe even quote information from the data in /var/spool/cyrus?
Ok, imapd is up and running again, all mailboxes and mails are back. First I reinstalled the cyrus21 packages and inserted the record for the cyrus system user to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow again. Then rsync'ed the latest snapshot of /var/spool/cyrus from the backup machine back to the imap server ran cyradm as user cyrus and created all mailboxes manually: cm user.jim cm user.jim.outbox cm user.alice cm user.alice.outbox ... Then, still as user cyrus, I ran "cyrreconstruct -f -r user" and it recreated all mailbox files. After a restart of the cyrus master all users could access their mails again. Unfortunately the message status information was lost. All messages are new and unread now and I can not see which messages I have answered. I might get over that loss, but it would still be nice if I could get those information back. Regards, Jim
