[KLUG Members] Retrieve deleted message

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I use cyrus imap. I have a user that deleted a messsage they didn't want to.
> Is there a way to retrieve a message?

NO

Except of course to restore the mail folder from backup and run reconstruct

> Also, how do you backup cyrus?

export PATH=/bin:/sbin
                                                                                
       cd /var/backup
rm -f /var/backup/CyrusMetaData.tgz
tar -czf /var/backup/CyrusMetaData.tgz /var/lib/imap
cp -f /etc/clamav.conf .
cp -f /etc/clamscan.list .
cp -fR /etc/mail .
cp -f /etc/imapd.conf .
cp -f /etc/cyrus.conf .
cp -f /etc/saslauthd.conf .
cp -f /etc/freshclam.conf .
mt -f /dev/st0 setdensity 0x85
STAMP=`date +%d%b%Y`
xfsdump -o -e -F -f /dev/st0 -L $STAMP"IMAP" -l0 -F /var/spool/imap
xfsdump -e -F -f /dev/st0 -L $STAMP"Backup" -l0 -F /var/backup