[czaveri]

Hi marcmac,

Thank-you very much for your comments and help.

I haven't run it yet. But, will do so today and make the corrections as pointed by you.

There's no error checking at all. None. NONE.

Will take care in v0.02

There's no enforcement of the user (you need to run this as zimbra).

I am deliberately not enforcing the "zimbra" user because once I improve on this, I want to be able to run it as any user and am planning to setuid-setgid root and have a web interface ... (that's why I am using absolute paths for zimbra's provided binaries).

There's no usage statement, so ./script.pl --help will kick off a backup (I get flamed for that one constantly)

Thanks again, marcmac. v0.02

Don't call mysql, use the perl DBI - it's even shipped with zimbra.

I am using "mysqldump" and don't know if I can use DBI for similar purpose. But if it can be, then I will make the changes.

You should use the zmmailbox command to list the calendars, and grab them all.

That looks like a perfect command. Didn't know about it. Will use it.

I don't think you need to specify BOTH the port and the socket for mysqldump.

I am specifying both because I am using the mysqldump binary that is not bundled with Zimbra. This binary would generally be compiled alongwith a mysql-server that would use the default port and default socket. If I only provide port it fails because it tries to search in the default path for the socket. It works only when I provide, both, port and socket.

Sincerely,