Re: Cyrus mailbox restore
Hi,
On 05.08. 13:45, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> I'm obviously doing this wrongly. What is the correct way to restore a
> cyrus mailbox?
You will need the file /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db or a clear-text dump
of it, which can be created by running 'su - cyrus -c "/usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist -d"'.
Do you have a backup of mailboxes.db? It contains ownership and access
rights to all mailboxes known to cyrus. In the worst case, you can also
create the clear-text dump of this file by hand and convert it to the
format needed by cyrus.
The clear-text format of mailboxes.db looks like this:
user.hansdp.sub.mail.box default hansdp lrswipcda
Each line contains the info on a mailbox. The column separator is a
tab, the columns are name of the mailbox, partition, owner, and access
rights (the example above should be fine for a user mailbox).
Every directory in /var/spool/cyrus/mail/*/user/* that contains a file
named cyrus.header is a mailbox.
You can use the command ctl_mboxlist to recreate the mailboxes.db file
from the clear-text format file. Please note that ctl_mboxlist should
be run as user cyrus:
'su - cyrus -c "/usr/sbin/ctl_mboxlist -u < mboxlist.clear-text'
(I haven't actually tried this, so beware).
The cyrus-wiki[0] contains some helpful hints as well.
Regards,
uLI
[0]: http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus
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