ZCS Administrator's Guide, Network Edition 5.0 (Rev May 2009)

zmbackupquery

The zmbackupquery command is used to find full backup sets. The command can be used to find a specific full backup set or full backup sets since a specific date, or all backup sets in the backup directory.

To find out the best full backup to use as the basis for point-in-time restore of an account, run a command like this:

$ zmbackupquery -a <account email> --type full --to <restore-to time>

Syntax

zmbackupquery [options]

Description

 

Long Name	Short Name	Description
--account	-a	<arg> Account email addresses separated by white space or all for all accounts
--debug	-d	Display diagnostics for debugging purposes
--help	-h	Displays the usage options for this command
--fromt		<arg> List backups whose start date/time is at or after the date/time specified here.
--label	-lb	<arg> The label of the full backup session to query. An example of a label is backup200507121559510.
--server	-s	<arg> Mail server host name. For format, use either the plain host name or the server.domain.com name. The default is the localhost name.
--target	-t	<arg> Specifies the backup target location (The default is <zimbra_home>/backup.)
--to		<arg> List backups whose start date/time is at or before the date/time specified here.
--type		<arg> Backup set type to query. “full” or “incremental”, both are queried if one is not specified.
--verbose	-v	Returns detailed status information

Specify date/time in one of these formats:

2008/12/16 12:19:23

2008/12/16 12:19:23 257

2008/12/16 12:19:23.257

2008/12/16-12:19:23-257

2008/12/16-12:19:23

20081216.121923.257

20081216.121923

20081216121923257

20081216121923

Specify year, month, date, hour, minute, second, and optionally millisecond.

Month/date/hour/minute/second are 0-padded to 2 digits, millisecond to 3 digits.

Hour must be specified in 24-hour format, and time is in local time zone.

ZCS Administrator's Guide, Network Edition 5.0 (Rev May 2009)