kolab-mailboxinfo.pl not working?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Zitat von Skip Morse <skipmorse at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at kolabsys.com> wrote:
>> Zitat von Skip Morse <skipmorse at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I think this script isn't working for me... I know it has worked in
>>> the past with a test server, but I'm trying to construct a back up
>>> script with this as part of it and it seems to hang part way.
>>
>> Where does the script come from? I admit I believe I saw it before but
>> I didn't take the time to check for its origin now.
>>
>
> http://kolab.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs-kolab.cgi/*checkout*/utils/admin/kolab-mailboxinfo.pl
>
> The script exports the folder annotations so as to have a backup
> incase of corruption.  I use it with the -c option for 'output
> suitable to load into cyradm'.
>
>>>
>>> if I try to use it to export to the file:
>>>
>>> kolab-mailboxinfo.pl -c > /backupdir/current/annotationslist.txt
>>>
>>> it gets to 'user A's folder X', over and over again...
>>>
>>> if I try to just run it on the CLI:
>>>
>>> kolab-mailboxinfo.pl -c
>>>
>>> It will stop at 'user B's folder Y' every time...
>>>
>>> I was initially worried that I had some corruption, but it doesn't
>>> seem like that's why this is failing...
>>>
>>> Just to rule out ssh, I tried going at it via 'console', but that
>>> didn't matter either.  I've been running it as user 'root'.
>>>
>>> Kolab Version 2.2.3 (Openpkg version)...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any feed back...
>>> -Skip
>>>
>>> Maybe off topic, when looking at the output, there's a line:
>>>
>>> mboxcfg "user/averageuser/Contacts at domain.com"
>>> /vendor/horde/share-params
>>> YToyOntzOjY6InNvdXJjZSI7czo1OiJrb2xhYiI7czo0OiJuYW1lIjtzOjE4OiJhY2F5YW5hbkB0ZWV4cC5jb20iO30=
>>>
>>> Does that seem like bad news?  I'm not seeing anything else that
>>> looks like that
>>
>> No, that is Horde storing some additional information in the folder
>> annotation of contact folders. Though it may of course be possible
>> that this is unexpected input for the script you are using.
>>
>
> Thanks for the input on this, I won't worry about it then.  This
> particular user has only ever used the horde as a client.
>
> I found that the reason for kolab-mailboxinfo.pl hanging was some sort
> of weirdness in the mailbox info for a specific user's folder (it
> turned out to be 2 user's folders I needed to fix).  I *think* the
> cause may have been a corrupt cyrus.cache in each of the problem
> folders.  I don't know enough to say for sure, only that deleting all
> the cyrus.* files and runny cyrreconstruct on each folder with the
> "-x" option seems to have fixed the issue (although seeing all mail as
> new for that folder).  I have more of a discussion on that in another
> email.
>
> Any idea if this is a common issue?  It's a little concerning that the
> script just hangs if it finds this, maybe it was just a fluke, but I
> feel like I'll need to write a script to followup on my backup script
> incase it's hung or something...

The problem originates from the fact that the data is copied from a live
IMAP system.

@Jeroen: Is there an alternative for generating a backup of the Cyrus
annotation data?

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> The reason for this is that I'm using berkley DB and the 'check for
> corruption' scripts are for skiplist I guess, so I'm trying to plan
> for the possibility of DB corruption...
>
> Thanks,
> -Skip
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gunnar
>>
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