Restoration depends on how blown up your system is. If you are just taking a working system back to an earlier date, you'd just expand the entire contents of your backup file into a temporary directory, stop all zimbra services, copy the contents of your temporary directory over top of /opt/zimbra, and restart.
If you actually have to do a reinstall, which is more likely if your system blows up, MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU HAVE THE INSTALLATION BINARIES FOR THE EXACT SAME VERSION YOU HAD WHEN THE BACKUP WAS MADE. Install those binaries, then stop zimbra services, and copy the expanded backup over top of all files in /opt/zimbra. Restart zimbra and your system should be restored.
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Cheers,
Dan
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