Disaster recovery

[wiscalico]

Hi.

I've been trying to migrate my Zimbra 5.0.6 installation to another server.

I've stopped all ingoing and out going connections with a firewall and started a full backup which completes successfully:

[zimbra@hermes ~]$ zmbackupquery
Label:   full-20080604.125739.559
Type:    full
Status:  completed
Started: Wed, 2008/06/04 14:57:39.559 CEST
Ended:   Wed, 2008/06/04 15:13:16.681 CEST
Redo log sequence range: 1 .. 1
Number of accounts: 24

But I cannot restore from the backup on my other server, because it tells me it lacks files containing ldap stuff:

[zimbra@janus ~]$ zmrestoreldap -lb full-20080604.114538.110
Stopping ldap...slapd not running
done.
Can't read /opt/zimbra/backup/sessions/full-20080604.114538.110/ldap/ldap.bak: No such file or directory at /opt/zimbra/bin/zmrestoreldap line 169.

I can find out why the full backup doesn't include the ldap.bak file?

Thanks

[uxbod]

What version of ZCS are you running ?

su - zimbra
zmcontrol -v

Also, http://www.zimbra.com/forums/announc...r-profile.html please

[wiscalico]

On the old Zimbra server:

[zimbra@hermes ~]$ zmcontrol -v


Release 5.0.6_GA_2314.RHEL4_20080522092131 CentOS4 NETWORK edition

New Zimbra server:

[zimbra@janus ~]$ zmcontrol -v


Release 5.0.6_GA_2313.RHEL5_64_20080522105815 RHEL5_64

[phoenix]

That's not quite a disaster recovery, it's a move to a new server and architecture: Network Edition: Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit Server - Zimbra :: Wiki

[wiscalico]

So the above is not supposed to work?

On a 32-bit the ldap.bak file isn't needed?

[phoenix]

So the above is not supposed to work?

If you mean the method you've used, no it's not supposed to work. As I've already said, that's not a disaster recovery - a disaster recovery would be a restore to the same operating system and architecture. If you wish to move to the hardware you've described then use the instructions in the wiki article.

[wiscalico]

Sorry for keeping asking questions I just don't understand the limitations.

Why isn't the ldap.bak part of the full backup, wouldn't it be needed for a 32bit system restore as well?

I just want to make sure that if the new 64bit server ever dies/crashes and all I have is a full backup I'm not in trouble because I didn't get a LDAP dump as well as a full backup.

[LMStone]

We recently did this, and you will need to export ldap from the 32-bit server to an ldif to be able to import it into the 64-bit ldap server.

But the wiki article to which Phoenix is pointing you is the only way to do what you want to do.

Hope that helps,
Mark