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!!! I can not analyze this problem. We were working with the server and nothing was strange but it seems that the server had a problem for something around one month!! Also maybe it helps to say that one of mailboxes which receives antivirus alerts was badly bombared with email and I think maybe the huge volume or number may cause this problem. But I can not understand how one month emails has been deleted from the file system and how the server worked smoothly while my backup shows that there had been a very serious problem with the filesystem so that it could not recognize this one month changes and do a backup from those datas. Another thing is that after this problem when I read my emails trough webmail the status of every emails (even new ones) are READ.
ANY HELP IS REALY APPRICIATED. Fatemeh Taj --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
