On Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:11:22 AM -0500 Shelley Waltz
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| I have a user who removed some messages and
| wishes them restored from the backup.
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| My question is - what is the best way to do this
| with cyrus-imap-1.6 without trashing what is currently
| there? Restore to a different user or sub-folder?
| Any suggestions and procedures are welcome.
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Cyrus is nearly justifyable for the ease with which you can restore data.
Every message is stored in a separate file with a unique name (it's UID)
and it never changes so you don't have to worry about overwriting files
except cyrus.* which should be excluded from your restore. You then have to
tell cyrus that the messages are there and reconstruct will do that for
you. The only tricky part is that the folder (directory) must exist before
you restore. The only information lost is the flags.
/Michael
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