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Old 10-18-2006, 10:34 AM
robbyt robbyt is offline
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Originally Posted by gfdos.sys
FYI: I am still running on 3.0 GA, I want to have a way to backup and restore before I go to the latest and greatest, as a fall back in case something doesn't work right in the upgrade process.
if you want to make a simple backup, just to insure that your upgrade goes smooth, do this:

/etc/init.d/zimbra stop
ps aux |grep zimbra (to make sure zimbra is fully closed)
cp -av /opt/zimbra /opt/zimbra.backup

then run the upgrade-
if things get hosed, all you should have to do is replace /opt/zimbra with /opt/zimbra.backup

e.g.
/etc/init.d/zimbra stop
mv /opt/zimbra /opt/zimbra.hosed
mv /opt/zimbra.backup /opt/zimbra
/etc/init.d/zimbra start


now, there are other things that the zimbra installer touches outside of /opt/zimbra, like for example cron and init scripts... so this might not be a 100% fix, but it's better then having a hosed email server
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