Hi all, Thanks to Ken, who has given me the straight tip ! What helped was the following:
./db_recover -c -v -h /var/imap/db.backup2 -t 20031215 -c means catastrohpical recover -v verbose (where verbose seems to be a very relative thing, for 1 1/2 hours I did not see what the machine is doing ...) -h home of the location to recover -t timestamp to go back to [CC]YYMMDD[hhmm] This, I think, recovered the file to a format, that cyrus was happy with, again. Immediately after the successful recover, I installed an amanda and did a big backup ;-) , now maybe I can sleep a little better ... Thanks ! ...olli Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Ken Murchison um 18:37: > Oliver Simon wrote: > > > Help please !!! > > > > Looks like a big big problem .... > > > > Something has corrupted my mailbox.db, and I think, I have to bite my > > ars%$. There is no backup ... About 50 users, Between 20 k and 30 MB > > mailboxes ... Please help, what can I do to recover this ? > > Working with web-cyradm, Postfix 2.1.15 and cyrus 2.15 (?) > > > > ctl_cyrusdb[3698]: DBERROR db3: /var/imap/mailboxes.db: unexpected file > > type or format > > You can try db_recover. If that fails, read the BDB docs and utilizing > the backups in /var/imap/db.backup1/ and /var/imap/db.backup2/
