disaster recovery process

[Eric B Munson]

No, I ran it as root.  The kolab user cannot read or write the mailbox files on disk (they belong to cyrus:mail).

On 2023-06-09 20:27, marko wrote:
> Are you running it as the kolab user?
> 
> 
> On Saturday, 10 June 2023 10:07:58 AM AEST Eric B Munson wrote:
>> Thanks for the pointer, I found it but get no output from running it on my
>> user. I ran:
>> 
>> # /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rf user/eric
>> #
>> 
>> I am sure that means I am using is wrong but I cannot find any indication of
>> how. AFAICT this is what the manpage says to do.
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> On 2023-06-09 06:23, Tom Reijnders wrote:
>> > Are you siure it's not installed? By default it's not in the path, but
>> > somewhere in the cyrus installation, so you would need the full path
>> > to the executable. Try running 'locate reconstruct'. If locate is not
>> > installeed, you should be able to install it using 'apt-get install
>> > mlocate'.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > Op 8-6-2023 om 17:39 schreef Eric B Munson:
>> >> I am having the same problem and would like to run reconstruct, but it is
>> >> not installed when using Ubuntu 18.04 and I cannot install the
>> >> cyrus-common package from the ubuntu repos (which contains reconstruct)
>> >> without breaking the kolab provided cyrus-imapd package. :/
>> >>
>> >> Guess it's time to see if they have finally fixed builds for 20.04 or
>> >> 22.04.>>
>> >> On 2023-06-01 10:00, Tom Reijnders wrote:
>> >>> Did you run reconstruct?
>> >>>
>> >>> See
>> >>> https://serverfault.com/questions/531916/reconstructing-cyrus-mailboxes-> >>> with-sub-folders.
>> >>>
>> >>> Tom
>> >>>
>> >>> Op 27-5-2023 om 16:36 schreef Josh:
>> >>>> Greetings kolabers,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> After a server catastrophic disk failure I reinstalled CentOS7 and
>> >>>> Kolab16 latest, recreated my user, then restored /var/spool/mail/doman
>> >>>> folder from a recent backup.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Inbox contents showed up correctly but no previously created folders
>> >>>> are shown to imap clients.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Am I missing something?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Please advise,
>> >>>> Josh.
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