ZCS Administrator's Guide, Network Edition 4.5, Rev 2 11/07

zmschedulebackup

This command is used to schedule backups and add the command to your cron table.

The default schedule is as follows:

•	Full backup, every Saturday at 1:00 a.m. (0 1 * * 6)

•	Incremental backup, Sunday through Friday at 1:00 a.m. (0 1 * * 0-5)ex

Each crontab entry is a single line composed of five fields separated by a blank space. Specify the fields as follows:

•	minute — 0 through 59

•	hour — 0 through 23

•	day of month — 1 through 31

•	month — 1 through 12

•	day of week — 0 through 7 (0 or 7 is Sunday, or use names)

Type an asterisk (*) in the fields you are not using.

This command automatically writes the schedule to the crontab.

Syntax

zmschedulebackup {-q|-s|-A|-R|-F|-D}[f|i|d|] ["schedule”]

Description

 

Name	Command Name	Description
Help	-h	Displays the usage options for this command.
Query	-q	Default command. Displays the existing Zimbra backup schedule.
Save	-s	Save the schedule. Allows you to save the schedule command to a text file so that you can quickly regenerate the backup schedule when the system is restored.
Flush	-F	Removes the current schedule and cancels all scheduled backups.
Append	-A	Adds an additional specified backup to the current schedule.
Replace	-R	Replaces the current schedule with the specified schedule.
Default	-D	Replaces the current schedule with the default schedule.
Incremental Backup	i	<time specifier> Incremental backup
Full Backup	f	Full backup
Delete	d <arg>	Delete backups

Examples

•	To schedule the default full and incremental backup

zmschedulebackup -D

•	To replace the existing schedule with a new schedule

zmschedulebackup -R f ["schedule”]

•	To add an additional full backup to the existing schedule

zmschedulebackup -A f ["schedule”]

•	To add an additional incremental backup to the existing schedule

zmschedulebackup -A i ["schedule”]

•	To display the existing schedules a

zmschedulebackup -q

•	To display the schedules on one line as a command, so that they can be copied to a text file and saved to be used if the application needs to be restored.

zmschedulebackup -s

ZCS Administrator's Guide, Network Edition 4.5, Rev 2 11/07