Restoring a File to a Shared Mailbox

[Russianspi]

Hi. I have a mailbox that shares folders to many users (as managers). One of my folders accidentally got cleared, and I would like to restore it using Zimbra's NE Backup and Restore Functionality, but I'm not sure how to just restore one folder in an account. Any help?

[mmorse]

Restore to a new target account (-ca -pre restored_) where a prefix is perpended to the original account names:

zmrestore -s server.domain.com -a user@domain.com -restoreToTime <timeArgument> -lb full-200xxxxxx -ca -pre restored_

In this case a new account is created named restored_user@domain.com
You could then grab out the material you want, thick-client connect to both accounts for swapping, imapsync, or choose to run the command without the new target/test account if your absolutely sure.

CLI zmrestore restoreToTime Network Edition only - Zimbra :: Wiki
-Don't forget to specify a full to work from with the -lb command
CLI zmrestore Network Edition only - Zimbra :: Wiki

Vote for / support ticket tag / CC watch this RFE: Bug 8849 - More Granular Restore: per folder & per-message

[Russianspi]

OK, thanks, Mike. That did the trick mostly. I didn't get the last few days of E-mail, though. I got an error on the CLI: "Error executing redoOp"

Any idea why (and does that explain why I'm still missing a few days of E-mail?)

--Dan

[mmorse]

Command you ran & can we get the full error stack from the log?

[Russianspi]

OK, Mike. I tried this first (sanitized a bit):

zmrestore -a mystores@domain.com -ca -pre temp

Error executing redoOp

and then this:

zmrestore -s mail.myserver.com -a mystores@domain.com -restoreToTime 20080604.000000 -lb full-20080603.080124.073 -ca -pre restored_

using restore to time of 2008/06/04 00:00:00
Error occurred: no such account: Account ID for mystores@domain.com not found in backup full-20080603.080124.073

that error stumped me, so I moved on. I may have entered the command wrong? The Backup was there... Finally, I entered this:

zmrestore -s mail.myserver.com -a mystores@domain.com -restoreToTime 20080604.000000 -ca -pre restored_

Error executing redoOp

I'm looking through my log files by date modified, and I'm not sure which you'd like to see. Last stactrace.#### file is Old...

A new, odd bit of information: I ran the last command one more time this morning (after deleting the temporary account), and didn't see any error this time - but I did see E-mail from Friday, 6/6, 2 days after the date I was apparently restoring to. Am I way off base?