ZCS Administrator Guide 8.0

Network Edition

Backup and Restore Using the Command Line Interface

The Zimbra backup and restore procedures can be run as CLI commands. The following utilities are provided to create backup schedules, perform full and incremental backups, restore the mail server, or restore the LDAP server.

zmschedulebackup. This command is used to schedule full backups, incremental backups, and deletion of old backups.

zmbackup. This command executes full or incremental backup of the mail server. This is run on a live server, while the mailboxd process and the mailbox server are running. This command also has an option to manually delete old backups when they are no longer needed.

zmbackupabort. This command stops a full backup that is in process.

zmbackupabort -r. This command stops an ongoing restore.

zmbackupquery. This command lists the information about ongoing and completed backups, including labels and dates.

zmrestore. This command executes a full or incremental restore to the Zimbra mail server. The zmrestore command is performed on a server that is running.

zmrestoreoffline. This command restores the Zimbra mail server when the mailboxd process is stopped.

zmrestoreldap. This command restores the complete LDAP directory server, including accounts, domains, servers, COS and other data.

Refer to Zimbra CLI commands on chapter for usage and definitions for each of these commands.