Howto restore Server with akonadi data?

[Thorsten Schnebeck]

Hi,

I had the challenge to restore mail-data from local backup to a (IMAP)-server.

In the past this was easy:
Kontact->Import->KMail data
path to /backup/daily.0/home/user/.kde/share/apps/kmail

You got a local maildir folder view and simply copy into server folder. When 
ready, there was a nice "Delete folder" command.

Now there is no maildir copy any longer as the local cache is part of the 
akonadi database. So I did:

close kontact
disable nepomuk-stuff
akonadictrl stop
close network connection
mv /home/user/.local/akonadi/ mv /home/user/.local/akonadi.save
cp -xaf /backup/daily.0/home/user/.local/akonadi  /home/user/.local/
akonadictrl start
start kontact
select the mails -> save as mbox-file 
repeat for all folders

close kontact
akonadictrl stop
rm -r /home/user/.local/akonadi
mv  /home/user/.local/akonadi.save /home/user/.local/akonadi
enable nemomuk-stuff
akonadictrl start
enable network connection
open kontact
set-up local mbox-folders from saved files
copy to server folder
remove mbox folder
sync (can be really slow - akonadictrl prints in 2 - 5Hz frequency stuff like:
12288 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
12289 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
12290 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
12291 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
...
30435 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
30436 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
to console, so we talk about hours!)
)
ready :-)

so, this was a little bit more complicate - is there a way to force a copy 
from a akonadi database to the server? When trying to sync a backup db the 
server seems to win and deletes the local mail copy.

Any ideas howto better reuse akonadi data?

Bye

  Thorsten

-- 
Old system:
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kontact --version
Qt: 4.7.2
KDE: 4.7.2 (4.7.2)
Kontact: 4.4.10

New system:
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kontact --version
Qt: 4.8.0
KDE: 4.8.00 (4.8.0 < who stoles that bracket ?:-))
Kontact: 4.8.0