Hot backups (full & incremental) help

[gg234]

Hi,

I am planning to take Hot backups (full & incremental) on my zimbra network edition with 50 mail boxes.I didn't understand the following syntax

Perform a full backup of all mailboxes on server1 to target at /mnt/disk.

zmbackup -f -s server1.domain.com -a all -t /mnt/disk

By default backup will be performed under /opt/zimbra/backup directory if i don't want to change this i don't have to menction -t /mnt/disk option.If want to store this backup in different location i can give another directory called -t /backup(for example)

Is it correct or i am missing something

thanks for your help

[mmorse]

It's the target backup location (the default is <zimbra_home>/backup).
I used to symlink or mount /opt/zimbra/backup to another location; however as of 4.5.6 you can change that default in the admin console backup tab; aka the graphical interface for setting:
zimbraBackupTarget
zimbraBackupReportEmailSubjectPrefix
zimbraBackupReportEmailSender
zimbraBackupReportEmailRecipients
These we're added in RFE: Bug 12442 - Backup/restore: add support for notification

Is this backup going to be in addition to the scheduled full & incremental backups? (aka another cron/manual?)

The default full backup is scheduled for 1:00 a.m., every Sunday. The default incremental backups are scheduled for 1:00 a.m., Monday through Saturday. This is the recommended schedule to have incremental backups run daily and a full backup run weekly. By default, backups older then a month are deleted on the first of each month at 12 a.m.
See zmschedulebackup if you would like to modify this schedule.

[gg234]

thanks for your reply.If i want to take backup in compressed format like tar.gz what option i have to do because i want to save some space in my hard disks

Originally Posted by mmorse

It's the target backup location (the default is <zimbra_home>/backup).
I used to symlink or mount /opt/zimbra/backup to another location; however as of 4.5.6 you can change that default in the admin console backup tab; aka the graphical interface for setting:
zimbraBackupTarget
zimbraBackupReportEmailSubjectPrefix
zimbraBackupReportEmailSender
zimbraBackupReportEmailRecipients
These we're added in RFE: Bug 12442 - Backup/restore: add support for notification

Is this backup going to be in addition to the scheduled full & incremental backups? (aka another cron/manual?)

The default full backup is scheduled for 1:00 a.m., every Sunday. The default incremental backups are scheduled for 1:00 a.m., Monday through Saturday. This is the recommended schedule to have incremental backups run daily and a full backup run weekly. By default, backups older then a month are deleted on the first of each month at 12 a.m.
See zmschedulebackup if you would like to modify this schedule.

[mmorse]

zmbackup -z (and whatever other arguments you wish)
-z zips the email blobs, then tar that whole backup folder itself as you desire

[gg234]

Thanks for your reply.If i want to receive an email whenever there is backup fails how do proceed with this

Thanks for your help

Originally Posted by mmorse

zmbackup -z (and whatever other arguments you wish)
-z zips the email blobs, then tar that whole backup folder itself as you desire