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Originally Posted by bjquinn  Well, then is it likely that I'll lose an email here or there, or possibly I'll lose some calendar entries, etc., or will the entire structure be unreadable. I really need a backup (obviously), and shutting it down may be out of the question due to the sheer amount of email people seem to have these days, even if there ARE only a few accounts. So if I just run this irresponsible online rsync, is it likely/possible to just lose a bit (who cares - you lose up to 24 hours worth since the last backup anyway), or is it likely/possible that the entire /opt/zimbra will be rendered pretty much utterly useless? |
The best answer I can give you is to ask this question on the MySQL forums. If you can rsync a running, active MySQL instance, you
may be able to make a running rsync kinda-sorta-mostly work with the caveats that you might lose a few messages and you may have to reindex all the restored mailboxes. If MySQL can't be rysnc'ed while it's running and active, this will not work at all and your "backup" will be useless.