> Hi, > I have lost 80% of the folders in a hierachie of a "virtual" user´s > mailbox. > > I have a backup of all files under spool/imap and lib/imap. > This is a full backup 3 days old (which would be ok) and an 3 incremental > backups from the last 3 days (which would be nice to have). > > There are a lot status and db-files, so I assume it will not work very > good to just copy the files in the original directories. > > Is there a how-to to restore the information from a file backup? > > (I thought about setting up a second server, trying to get the lost mails > there and copy the mails via IMAP-client to the main server, just to > prevent the integrity of the database on the main server. The second > server could be removed after this.)
I think those mail files should be just as other regular system files. After you restore them back to their original place, 'reconstruct' (http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/reconstruct8.html) should take care of the rest. If worse and more complicated than that, I'd like to hear other inputs. Bing ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
