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Originally Posted by raj Well yes paying is good and it gives you lot more than just hot backup and restore..i have not got any time to do that yet but logically you don’t need to SHUT DOWN open source version really to BACKUP zimbra..
I am just thinking logically..
MySQL and LDAP and FILE STORE so all you need to figure out is how to do
1) HOT BACKUP of mysql
2) dont know how LDAP store data if we can just COPY
3) email store..for sure its just file copy
* iam talking about full backup..plus if you using a backup software it willl do incremental too so you dont backup 100's of gigs every time..only changed files..
so some day i will pull an all nighter and have this answers...till then if someone else is up in night doing this do post.. 
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You forgot to list the per-user search indexes in that list.
Remember, not only do you have to backup all these things, you have to keep them completely in-sync so you get a consistent snapshot of the data. Very Bad Things will happen if someone receives or deletes a message in the time between the backup of MySQL and the backup of the Blob store (messages) and the backup of the index.
Seriously folks -- live backup is a surprisingly hard problem and the issues can be very subtle. You'll probably end up getting something that works most of the time, but you really have no protection over getting a bad snapshot at the wrong time....