Cyrreconstruct corrupting mailbox.. How do I use it ?

[Hamish]

On Monday 31 October 2005 19:19, Kevin Baker wrote:
> Cyrreconstruct is corrupting my mailboxes during migration.
>
> So I am migrating from a standard Cyrus server to a new Kolab setup on a
> new machine. I used Imapsync for most accounts, but some just will not
> transfer this way.
>
> So I decided to use standard SCP/Cyrreconstruct method that I have used
> with Cyrus in the past. I completely corrupted the mailboxes that I used
> this method on.
>
> Why? Reconstruct fails, so I have bad cyrus.header information on all
> mailboxes.
>
> Does anyone have experience successfully using cyrreconstruct with Kolab?
> I have read some threads I have a pretty good process defined from them,
> problem is it doesn't work ;)
>
> My Process:
> - Create account on new machine in Kolab
> - Scp files from old machine user mailbox to new machine user mailbox
> - Correct permissions on files: kolab-r:kolab-r (rw) recursive on all dirs.
> - Shut down Kolab server
> - Remove cyrus.* files from all dirs.
>   (recommendation for migrations from none Kolab boxes in thread)
> - Run /kolab/sbin/cyrreconstruct -rf user/username at domain.com
>   I replace username at domain.com with my info
> - Restart Kolab
>
>
> Result:
> - Cyrreconstruct does not show any "discovered {folder}" information,
> reconstruct seems to fail although it does not show any errors.
> - Mailbox has System/IO error when accessing from any mail client
> tion.
>
>
> I have about 10 accounts that I need to transfer this way. I can just do
> it by hand with Tbird and both accounts added with drag and drop, but I
> will loose the Internaldates, which I need for users on Outlook and other.
>
>
> Any ideas would be Hugely appreciated, even if it is "don't use
> reconstruct do it this way.." hopefully more along the lines of "did you
> do this, this will fix it" ;)
>
>
> Thanks Tons,
>
>
> Kevin Baker

Hi Kevin
IO errors happen when you are not running as kolab-r, make sure you su - 
kolab-r before running reconstruct. I have restored like this with good 
results (although it was files from the same installation).
Hope that helps,
H
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