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There once was a young, inexperienced tech guy living in Tombstone AZ.

A while back, I...I mean he toasted our district-wide e-mail server (and all accounts) by running the rm -rf /opt/zimbra backups/(date) command. (This was in the very early days of Zimbra. I think was running either the 1st or 2nd milestone of their first GA release) Ahh the good old days.

As you can tell, I put a space instead of the "/"

I erased everything, even though it was running. Marc (MarcMac) and I managed to gather a couple of messages. This was because mysql & tomcat were still (oddly) running, so the webui was active (sort of).

This way, I was able to pull the messages into outlook, thus salvaging a couple files.

Another tip is that (only use if you have a complete failure of all systems, and you won't be able to recover) is to sftp the /opt/zimbra/store to a windows machine. The messages in the store are also in MIME format. Theoretically, you could recover all of your messages, as long as the store isn't toast. The questions would be, whose messages are they?

You'd have to open the message, and view who it's to.

So back to the story. Our district (as most others are) was involved in litigation, and the messages I erased where subpoenaed.

I was cited for obstruction of justice for erasing them.

Several weeks later, we invested in the Network Edition, for which I am a HUGE advocate.
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-john