I'm trying to restore mail stores, too. The OS hard drive failed and took everything but /var with it, so I've still got all of the old files. How do I restore all of the mail back to the newly-installed cyrus implementation?
Incidentally, in case this makes any difference: The old implementation was compiled from source. The new implementation was installed from an RPM. Thanks, Matt Kenigson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarjei Huse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: Re: Mailbox Backup > Hi, > > The remaining mailbox data and their contents can be then salvaged from > > the mail store with 'reconstruct -r user.*' after pulling them from > > regular backups. Fixing quotas (quota -f) might also be necessary. > > > > Cyrus uses the DB3 libraries in a transactional manner, so a backup > > taken from a running system will not be enough to restore it to > > a consistent state. After a crash, you can use the DB utilities > thanks, does this info also apply if you shut down cyrus prior to backup? > Tarjei > > > ____________________ > Tarjei Huse > 920 63 413 > > >
