Steinar,

You would use ctl_mboxlist to restore the mboxlist.txt file if you used ctl_mboxlist to dump it.

for example, my weekly crontab backs up my mailboxes.db in a textfile, such as

su -c "/usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_mboxlist -d" cyrus > /imap.backup/mailboxes.$DATE.txt

You would use ctl_mboxlist -u to load it fwiw.


Steinar Bang wrote:
Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Does this mean they don't require rebuilding when moving from cyrus 2.1
to 2.2?

If that is true, and if the text version of the mailboxes file is what I
need, then I should be able to survive this...:-)

(but I don't dare start cyrus22 until I hear some sort of confirmation
on this...:-) )

cvt_cyrusdb croaks on the ASCII file as well. (sigh!)

/$ /usr/sbin/cvt_cyrusdb /var/lib/cyrus/mboxlist.txt flat 
/var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db skiplist
Converting from /var/lib/cyrus/mboxlist.txt (flat) to 
/var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db (skiplist)
fatal error: can't open old database

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