Doug Koobs wrote:
Ken,
Thanks for the info.
If the contents of the mailstore is static when you do the backup/restore, then reconstruct *shouldn't* be necessary.
OK, how about this. I'll try it first without running reconstruct. If there are problems, then I'll shut down cyrus-imapd and run reconstruct on just the mailboxes that have problems. Sound good?
Yes.
You can simply restore the deleted messages directly into the mailbox from which they came and then reconstruct the mailbox to get them added to cyrus.index and cyrus.cache.
That does sound easier, but how do you know which message is the one the user wanted? By the timestamp?
If you're looking for a single message, it can be tough. If you know when they deleted the message you can just roll back to a particular time and restore all messages before that timestamp. For undeleted messages, you're just overwriting the file with an exact duplicate.
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