ZCS Administrator Guide 8.0

Network Edition

General Steps for Disaster Recovery

Use the following steps to restore a mailbox store server in a general disaster scenario involving multiple machines.

Preparation

1.	Restore the LDAP directory server to a known good state before doing anything with the mailbox store server.

2.	Put all mailboxes into maintenance mode to prevent mail delivery and user login while restoring the mailboxes.

3.	Stop the mailbox store server if it is running.

Recovery

1.	Reinstall the ZCS software on the mailbox server, if necessary.

2.	Restore mailboxes.

3.	Start the VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server server.

4.	Put all VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server mailboxes back in active mode.

5.	Run a full backup of the server.