Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes when delayed delete is in use? -- Leena Heino University of Tampere / Computer Centre ( liinu at uta.fi ) ( http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tkk ) Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes > when delayed delete is in use? Use the unexpunge command; the man page isn't bad, and I have examples and some notes in the Cyrus chapter of WMOGAG

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

--On Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:57 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: >> What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes >> when delayed delete is in use? > > Use the unexpunge command; the man page isn't bad, and I

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: >> What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes >> when delayed delete is in use? > > Use the unexpunge command; the man page isn't bad, and I have examples > and so

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:06:15PM +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > >> What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes > >> when delayed delete is in use? > > > > Use t

Re: ctl_cyrusdb questions, looking for answers

> ... > > 1) Listing of database files "checkpointed" > > 2) Description of checkpoint format > > a) "ls /var/lib/imap" suggest two sets of checkpoint database are > > retained. > > I'm not really sure here. Cyrus-imapd checkpoints databases and archives > some of them (mboxlist_db, quota_db, ann

Re: ctl_cyrusdb questions, looking for answers

Thanks for the answers! > ... > > > The information that man does not provide is > > 1) Listing of database files "checkpointed" > > I've always assumed all-of-them excerpt from the source: ... /* if we need to archive this db, add it to the list */ if (dblist[i].archive) {

Re: ctl_cyrusdb questions, looking for answers

> > Not exactly sure what you mean here. I think you only need the database in > > db.backup? and of course clean the environment before restoring such a db. > AFAIK only that three databases are copied to the db.backupX directory. So if > there are other checkpointed dbs they stay in the original

Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

Quoting Wesley Craig : > I'm pretty sure this is because neither the frontends nor the clients > are able to intelligently handle the kinds of transient errors that > are returned. Frontend improvements might be possible. Client > improvements are Sisyphean. What could the frontends do that wou

Re: ctl_cyrusdb questions, looking for answers

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:37:37AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > Not exactly sure what you mean here. I think you only need the database in > > > db.backup? and of course clean the environment before restoring such a db. > > AFAIK only that three databases are copied to the db.backupX dir

Re: Delayed delete, restoring deleted mailboxes

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:06:15PM +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:26 +0200, Leena Heino wrote: > >> What is the recommended process to restore deleted messages or mailboxes > >> when delayed delete is in use? > > > > Use t

Re: Is user lock-out required for backend xfers?

On 17 Mar 2009, at 11:26, Matt Selsky wrote: > Quoting Wesley Craig : >> I'm pretty sure this is because neither the frontends nor the clients >> are able to intelligently handle the kinds of transient errors that >> are returned. Frontend improvements might be possible. Client >> improvements ar