[dthomson]

Here are the exact final steps that allowed me to recover from my backup. Honestly, this is pretty much a bad joke that it took all of this.

1. Backup /opt/zimbra (I tgz'ed it)

2. Download a fresh tgz of the Zimbra release, preferably the same architecture and version

3. Install on the new machine, which should have the same DNS and MX settings with the command ./install.sh -s

4. rm -rf /opt/zimbra

5. Untar the original backup to /opt/zimbra, and run this:

su - zimbra
/opt/zimbra/openldap/sbin/slapcat -f /opt/zimbra/conf/slapd.conf -l /tmp/ldap.ldif

6. Copy the /opt/zimbra/conf/slapd.conf and /opt/zimbra/conf/localconfig.xml to a safe place

7. rm -rf /opt/zimbra (which will be the backup...make sure you kept the original backup as a tgz so you can unzip it again)

8. Re-install from the original distribution with the -s option

9. Copy the backup of slapd.conf to /opt/zimbra/conf

10. Run this command:

su - zimbra
/opt/zimbra/openldap/sbin/slapadd -f /opt/zimbra/conf/slapd.conf -l /tmp/ldap.ldif

11. Move the /opt/zimbra/openldap-data directory to a safe place

12. rm -rf /opt/zimbra

13. Unzip from the backup again

14. Delete the /opt/zimbra/openldap-data directory

15. Copy/move the backup of the openldap-data directory into the /opt/zimbra directory

16. Run /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms

17. Run the install.sh without the -s option. It will most likely fail.

18. Copy the original localconfig.xml into the /opt/zimbra/conf directory

19. ./install.sh again without the -s option

20. Just to even it out at a full TWENTY STEPS, write a post to the Zimbra forums complaining what a pathetically convoluted process this was.