Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 1/15/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wrong. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in oldstable are fine, and ask > the user before removing everything. The cyrus-imapd 1.5 packages in > *stable* are dangerous and remove everything when you purge them. Isn't this som

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > ARGH! indeed, the old cyrus-imapd packages appear to have a grave bug that > removes ALL the information without any futher questions asked on purge. > > I don't know what we can do about this, though :( Those packages are gone > and only

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Jim MacBaine wrote: > Yesterday I decided to purge the old cyrus packages (cyrus-imapd and > cyrus-common). I was surprised how fast 250.000 files on a reiser > filesystem can be deleted: Purging the old cyrus packages removed all > mails from /var/spool/cyrus and all db files

Re: Restoring cyrus21-imapd [80% solved]

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 1/15/06, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I have a recent (~10 hrs old) backup of the mailspool in > /var/spool/cyrus, I do not have a backup of /var/lib/cyrus. Is there > an easy way to restore the mailboxes file and the other database > files, maybe even quote information from

Restoring cyrus21-imapd

2006-01-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, a few weeks ago I updated my imap server on sarge from cyrus-imapd to cyrus21-imapd. Everything went quite well and was running perfectly for a few weeks. Yesterday I decided to purge the old cyrus packages (cyrus-imapd and cyrus-common). I was surprised how fast 250.000 files on a reiser