[SOLVED] Mail backup options for end users?

[mmorse]

Anteos & NOZIL, cc yourselves/keep an eye on Bug 15161 - add a 'recursive' option for REST .zip fetch

Originally Posted by NOZIL

So i can answer to myself for the first request, as putting a before: using the date of the day will give me a full backup, including sub folders.
But date must be in us format even in i'm in french in browser locale.

before:today might help ya out (instead of putting a date string)

Originally Posted by flums

Wow, this is great! Never had any use of this until yesterday when a client wants to backup his account

Then I'll wager you haven't seen: /blog/archives/2006/01/rest_update.html & /blog/archives/2005/11/all_rest_and_no.html & /blog/archives/2006/05/updating_via_re_1.html
(I added them to my first post in this thread for others to find easier.)

Slightly different in 4.5.x but don't forget that can use the web-client options/preferences as well!

(or in a url you could to the vcard by .vcf or /Contacts.zip)
export/import of cals in .ics is also in the web-client

btw also read rest.txt (& ZipFormatter.java takes care of the zips)

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UPDATE: For 5.0.9/10+ I highly recommend the tar formatter for personal backups to get items plus metadata: ZCS-to-ZCS Migrations » Zimbra :: Blog
(5.0.11/.12 has it nicely exposed to users -instead of remembering url tricks- in the import/export section of the preferences tab)

[anteos]

Originally Posted by mmorse

-sry about those double-quotes! force of habit from other things...

Anteos has done some excellent work on fbackup! - Especially to get recursive folders working properly (using iframes) as if I remember right recursive=1 had some issues.

To be honest my employee lfasci has developed the zimlet

Originally Posted by mmorse

..........
He's not ready to add it to the gallery yet, but throw him a PM if you want to help test.
(Don't know if he wants to post it directly here or not because you are able able to sell your zimlets; though I hope this one end's up free - because I know it'll make the end user feel better about 'self backups' if they don't use a thick-client or something.)

Thanks for your tests and suggestions, the zimlet will be released under the GPL license after some debugging works and improvements on documentations and features

[SpecialKdkj]

Great - this zimlet is something my company would definitely be using as well!

[padraig]

we would us it 2

[redhat]

Two questions:

When I get a zip archive of my mailbox as suggested in this thread, like so:

http://server.domain.com/user/~/inbox.zip

The individual e-mail messages in the archive all have the date/time of when the archive was created instead of the date/time of the actual message. Am I doing something wrong or is there a way around that?

Does anyone know the status of the backup zimlet discussed in this thread? Is it available anywhere?

[mmorse]

That's just the file created date, if you open one of the .eml's in a txt editor you'll still see the 'Date' header intact.

Say you choose to re-import with zmlmtpinject, you run a script to add the 'X-Zimbra-Received' header.

-I'll let the seacom.it people post a link to their current zimlet.

EDIT:
Fbackup: Zimlet Folder Backup | ::Seacom°blog°Zimbra::
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Another approach: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/zimlets...-txt-file.html

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UPDATE: For 5.0.9/.10+ I highly recommend the tar formatter for personal backups to get items plus metadata: ZCS-to-ZCS Migrations » Zimbra :: Blog
(5.0.11/.12+ has it nicely exposed to users -instead of remembering url tricks- in the import/export section of the preferences tab)



I realize the built-in import/export on newer versions takes most of the necessity of your fbackup zimlet away, but just wanted to say thanks Anteos & lfasci for the good work you put into it!

[anteos]

We have released an updated version of the zimlet Fbackup that works on ZCS 5.0x, you can download a beta version from our blog.
The zimlet allows users to save on their PC a compressed archive, containing folders and messages.
Any suggestion to improve the zimlet is appreciated.

[mjp]

Does your zimlet work with shared folders ?

I haven't tried it yet, but after reading the thread it seems one can only backup to a zip containing .eml files. It would be great to have an option to change the format to txt or html and have the attachments seperate.

[tgx]

Originally Posted by mjp

Does your zimlet work with shared folders ?

I haven't tried it yet, but after reading the thread it seems one can only backup to a zip containing .eml files. It would be great to have an option to change the format to txt or html and have the attachments seperate.

Well the issue I have is how does one drag and drop a folder that is high on a multi-page folder list onto the backup zimlet when it is a system with no scroll wheel? There is not a right click option.