Moving Inboxes AFTER failed upgrade

[dave.gill@yourpcknights.c]

Hello

I backed up the /opt/zimbra folder, but did not go through the backup process for zimbra prior to upgrading it.

I had issues, that forced me to remove the old installation and start with a new one.

What can I do to move over the information from the directory backup to the new installation?

[phoenix]

You should search the wiki for the words 'disaster recovery' and follow the instructions in the article you find.

[dave.gill@yourpcknights.c]

Thank you for the suggestion. I was able to find an array of recovery methods for the network edition, but non for the open source edition.

If anyone else has this issue. I was able to find that you can use zmmailbox and import the old messages from the store folder.

The store folder's formate is /opt/zimbra/store/0/"user#"/msg/"folder#"
The user number is the number of that user, and the folder number, I think, is a folder that they previously had.

Reguardless you can recover their messages like so:

su zimbra
zmmailbox
adminAuthenticate -u https://server.domain.com:7071 admin@domain.com password
selectMailbox userid@domain.com
createfolder /Folder1
addMessage /Folder1 /opt/zimbra/store/0/"user#"/msg/0

If you type the folder wrong for the addMessage command, it WILL boot you out of the zmmailbox prompt.

I am sure their is another way to recover messages, but I was able to recover the times, the e-mails were received.