I'm testing our backup and recovery process. For backups, we shut down cyrus-imapd (installed via Simon's rpm's) and postfix, use cpio to backup /var/spool/mail and /var/lib/imap and /etc, then restart cyrus-imapd and postfix.
I've built a restore server, installed postfix and cyrus. Here is what I would like to do: Create a test user and mailbox to verify that SMTP & IMAP are working together properly. Remove test mailbox and delete user Stop postfix and cyrus-imapd Restore /var/spool/imap and /var/lib/imap Make sure all files/directories are owned by cyrus:mail Copy user entries back into /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (I'm using passwd for Cyrus authentication) At this point, do I need to run reconstruct? If so, any options? I'm thinking I don't need to use it at all, since I stopped postfix and cyrus-imapd. Am I missing anything? In regards to restoring just an email that someone accidentally deleted, how does this sound: Create a top-level folder that will be the restore target Restore the contents of the directory containing the user's folder that needs to be restored into the directory containing the restore folder reconstruct that folder, and grant access to the user After the users has copied over the missing message to his own mailbox, remove the restore mailbox. Thanks! Doug My apologies for the following footer... Confidential: This electronic message and all contents contain information from Financial Credit Services which may be privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, copy, distribution or use of the contents of this message is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify the sender and destroy the original message and all copies. --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
