Re: Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Ken Murchison
Doug Koobs wrote: Ken, Thanks for the info. If the contents of the mailstore is static when you do the backup/restore, then reconstruct *shouldn't* be necessary. OK, how about this. I'll try it first without running reconstruct. If there are problems, then I'll shut down cyrus-imapd and run re

RE: Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Koobs
Ken, Thanks for the info. > If the contents of the mailstore is static when you do the > backup/restore, then reconstruct *shouldn't* be necessary. OK, how about this. I'll try it first without running reconstruct. If there are problems, then I'll shut down cyrus-imapd and run reconstruct on j

Re: Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Ken Murchison
Doug Koobs wrote: I'm testing our backup and recovery process. For backups, we shut down cyrus-imapd (installed via Simon's rpm's) and postfix, use cpio to backup /var/spool/mail and /var/lib/imap and /etc, then restart cyrus-imapd and postfix. I've built a restore server, installed postfix and cyr

Disaster Recovery & Single Message Restore

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Koobs
I'm testing our backup and recovery process. For backups, we shut down cyrus-imapd (installed via Simon's rpm's) and postfix, use cpio to backup /var/spool/mail and /var/lib/imap and /etc, then restart cyrus-imapd and postfix. I've built a restore server, installed postfix and cyrus. Here is what

RE: Disaster Recovery

2004-05-10 Thread Jim Levie
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 19:50, Gordon Shumway wrote: > Hi Felix, > > I have not found the solution. Well not an easy automated solution anyway. > It would be nice if there was an extra reconstruct flag to create the > mailbox if it does not exist, but perhaps this functionality is beyond the > spec

RE: Disaster Recovery

2004-05-10 Thread Gordon Shumway
meone would not have a backup. Gordon. -Original Message- From: Felix Cuello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 2004 5:23 AM To: Gordon Shumway Subject: Re: Disaster Recovery On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:59:58AM +1000, Gordon Shumway wrote: > The reconstruct utility

Disaster Recovery

2004-05-09 Thread Gordon Shumway
    Hi,   I am working through various Cyrus crash scenarios. In the event of losing a disk containing /var/spool/imap/users and having no backup. How can I reconstruct the user directory hierarchy. EG /var/spool/imap/users/testuser testuser2 testuser3 etc etc.   The reconstruct util