On Monday 11 April 2005 15:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish wrote: > > On Monday 11 April 2005 14:07, Dave McMurtrie wrote: > > > Hamish wrote: > > > > Hello everyone > > > > I am having trouble restoring files from a backup, I have made the > > > > backup just with rsync, so i have the contents of the > > > > spool/domain/mydomain.com/user/myuser in the backup. It seems that > > > > the user's mailbox has been deleted, so what I aim to do is create a > > > > new user with the same name, copy the files from the backup, then run > > > > reconstruct (please tell me if this is wrong) > > > > I copy the files across, but in cyradm when `running reconstruct > > > > user/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > gives Operating System Error. > > > > Could someone point me in the right direction? > > > > Thanks, > > > > H > > > > > > The restored files are owned by root instead of your cyrus user? > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, but no they are owned by the cyrus user (I am > > using a kolab server, so the user is kolab-r). I have found that I cannot > > reconstruct even a new mailbox, is this normal? > > AFAIK (running 2.1.18) you need to run reconstruct (as the cyrus user) as > 'reconstruct -r user.myuser' > The dot (.) is the hierarchy separator. The -r is for recursively.
I managed to get it right by using cyrreconstruct, instead of cyradm, not sure why this worked like this though! Thanks for the suggestions, H
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