Backup/restore process

[Alain Spineux]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Paul Douglas Franklin <pdf at yugm.org> wrote:
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> Alain Spineux wrote:
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> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Paul Douglas Franklin <pdf at yugm.org> wrote:
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> 3.  In the "Components" section of the wiki, it talks about backing up and
> restoring the list of mailboxes.  But in the "Playback" section, it leaves
> out the restore line which has been giving me trouble above.  Being the
> eagle-eyed person I am, I added it.  It now occurs to me that the person who
> wrote the wiki probably meant not to put that in, that it is not needed if
> rsync -avz backup/imapd/ /kolab/var/imapd/
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> This command restore mailbox.db too,
> but have a dump of this file is not a too much.
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> The wiki as far to be perfect or even error free :-(
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> The dump is not too much, but to restore as I've been trying to do will be
> unnecessary when I succeed with rsync.
> It does still leave me curious about why my use of /kolab/bin/ctnl_mboxlist
> is not working.  But I suspect that my immediate problem is solved.

maybe strace will give you more info :

# su - kolab-r -c "strace /kolab/bin/ctnl_mboxlist -u" <
/oldserver/backup/imapd/mailboxlist.txt

> --Paul
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> --
> Paul Douglas Franklin
> Computer Manager, Union Gospel Mission of Yakima, Washington
> Husband of Danette
> Father of Laurene, Miriam, Tycko, Timothy, Sarabeth, Marie, Dawnita, Anna
> Leah, Alexander, and Caleb



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