Hot to recover e-mail files from a backup?

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Thu Nov 1 11:47:11 CET 2007


On Wednesday 31 October 2007 10:44, Alessio Cecchi wrote:
> What is the correct method with cyrus-imap? With Maildir/ is sufficient
> a "cp -a" but with cyrus?

I recommend to use a fresh new directory for recovery,
this will avoid potential problems with old file names.
There are several methods how to "create" and fill this folder.

One is to keep the cyrus.* files and have cyrreconstruct "discover"
the new folder with the "-f" option.

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