disaster recovery process

[Eric B Munson]

Thanks for the pointers, but I am on to my next problem. I ran this reconstruct and now the missing folders are the only ones I can access via imap. My inbox, calendar, and contacts claim to be inaccessible. The data is still there on disk but I get 'Mailbox does not exist' back from round cube and fetchmail.

At little back story, I had to recover from backups when I lost access to my original mail server and I chose to move domain names at the same time. So it looks like reconstruct has associated the existing folders (inbox, calendar, contacts, etc) with my old domain account. I am not sure how to untangle this mess but I cannot read my inbox ATM. Any help would be appreciated.

Eric

On June 14, 2023 4:13:22 AM EDT, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
>You should be able to run it as user cyrus:
>
># sudo -u cyrus ....
>
>As for the syntax to use for the mail box. If you have a mailbox in your system, run
>
># kolab lm
>
>to see the proper syntax of a mailbox. It also depends on your use of multiple domains whether you have to add a domain. But you can see that in the *kolab lm* output as well.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tom
>
>Op 12-6-2023 om 19:08 schreef Eric B Munson:
>> That may be a centos thing then, on Debian none of the kolab* users can access the mailboxes
>> 
>> # sudo -u kolab-r /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -rfx user/eric
>> fatal error: can't read mailboxes file
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2023-06-12 01:43, marko wrote:
>>> root won't work, you need to be the kolab restricted user.
>>> from my 2016 notes, probably on centos 6 when I was migrating a lot of
>>> kolab:
>>> _su - kolab-r -c "/kolab/bin/cyrreconstruct -rfx
>>> user/marko at mechtron.com.au"_
>>> cheers
>>> 
>>> Marko
>>> 
>>> On Sunday, 11 June 2023 11:23:19 PM AEST Eric B Munson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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-mailbox
>>> 
>>>>>>>>> es-> >>> 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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