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List:       cyrus-info
Subject:    Re: backupd and sync_client IOERROR
From:       "ellie timoney" <ellie () fastmail ! com>
Date:       2020-06-24 4:52:13
Message-ID: db1366db-838f-4d5f-9f41-0461a26e1d97 () www ! fastmail ! com
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> I think there isn't a all-in-one command for this use case: a user 
> expunged some messages and deleted some folders somewhere. I want to 
> recover all expunged messages and all the deleted folders which are no 
> more present in the original IMAP server (because they were expired from 
> cyr_expire).
> 
> I have to set "-x" to avoid duplication of messages.
> With "-a -x" I recover all expunged messages and all deleted mailboxes. 
> But messages inside deleted mailboxes are not marked as expunged, so 
> these mailboxes are recovered empty in the IMAP server.

I would run restore twice in this case:  once without -x, specifying just the deleted \
mailboxes (you can use "cyr_backup list mailboxes ..." to get a list of the mailboxes \
in the user's backup).  And once with -x to get all the expunged stuff.  For the -x \
invocation only, I would probably also use the -M option to dump all the recovered \
stuff into a new folder, so they can easily tell it apart from any new mail that \
might have arrived coincidentally at the same time.

> Another idea is to recover all in another empty IMAP server, without 
> "-x" at all, and the user can look at the mailbox recovered there...

We kinda had a similar idea!  Putting it all into a folder with -M is much easier \
than setting up a separate server, but it'll lose the folder structure.  Recovering \
to a separate server means the folder structure can be preserved.  I guess it depends \
on the specific recovery situation, and how hard it is to spin up a server in your \
environment.

Cheers,

ellie
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