Mika,
I'm with the folks I'm helping out right now. All I had to do was restore
the mailboxes from backup, replace the mailboxes.db with the old one (from
backup), run ctl_mboxlist -r on it and then do the reconstruct -r for the
mailbox I was trying to restore. It worked like a charm!!!
Tha
hanks,
Matt Kenigson
- Original Message -
From: "Mika Iisakkila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Mailbox Backup
> Tarjei Huse wrote:
> > PS: Some people noted that in addition to backing up t
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Tarjei Huse wrote:
> thanks, does this info also apply if you shut down cyrus prior to backup?
Nope -- if you can shut down cyrus, backing up by normal means is OK.
But when cyrus is running, the mailbox/delivery database state on the
disk is a "moving target", and you can't g
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
Tarjei Huse wrote:
> PS: Some people noted that in addition to backing up the /var/imap
> and /var/spool/imap folders, you need to export some of the .db files to
> txt. Does anyone want to fill me out on this??
To export mailboxes.db to a text file:
ctl_mboxlist -d > tempfile
To res
You got some options:
backup over the imap protocol.
Never done this, anyone got an example of how?
other libe backupmethods
Never done this either. ame as above.
Shutdown server make tarball startserver.
check cyrus-utils.sf.net/faq there's a script there that can be used.
PS: Some people not
