Hot to recover e-mail files from a backup?

Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 10:54:16 CET 2007


On 10/31/07, Alessio Cecchi <alessio at skye.it> wrote:
> Kontact from Kubuntu 7.10 has delete again all my e-mail from INBOX.
>
> No comment.
>
> Now my INBOX is empty, but i have a backup of the all /kolab/.
>
> I have extract from backup my inbox:
> var/imapd/spool/domain/p/domainxxx.com/u/user/user/
>
> I can see all single e-mail files but if copy its in the
> location /kolab/var/imapd/spool/domain/p/prisma.com/g/user/gestioneserver/
> with a cp i can't see the e-mail.
>
> What is the correct method with cyrus-imap? With Maildir/ is sufficient
> a "cp -a" but with cyrus?

If you restored all the files including the cyrus.* it should work.
If not you can rebuild these file using cyrreconstruct.
Someting like :

# su kola-r
$ cyrreconstruct -r -f user/gestioneserver at prisma.com

should do the job


>
> Thanks.
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