On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Fatemeh Taj wrote:
Hi list Something terrible happened to my mailserver. (Redhat 7.1+cyrus 2.0.16) At mornining I found out that my server is down. After doing fsck it came up. But the strange thing was that the status of the /var/spool/imap/user was for one month ago! I mean that there were just emails up to 30 Jun and every emails which users had after this date had been deleted! I just found a few emails and two unreadable files in lost+found directory after fsck. I decided to restore my backups. I had level zero backup from last week and a level 9 backup from 1:00 AM. What was more strange was that the level zero backup was exactly what I had that day !!! and the level 9 (incrimental) backup had not recognizd any change on the file system after level zero date!!!
Here's a guess, though one which is just that: you're using a logging filesystem of some sort, and the log had stuff not flushed, and was lost.
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