Full User Backup (OSS 5.0.16)

[msmcknight]

Hi folks,

Sorry if this has already been answered, but searching for "user backup" just gives results that seems to deal at a lower level than I think I need...

What I am looking for is a way to backup a users data -- mailbox folders, address book, calendar, briefcase, etc. from the command line on a per-user basis.

I found one command that I think will give me all of the users mail folders:

zmmailbox -z -m user@domain.com getRestURL "//?fmt=tgz" > /tmp/account-mailfolders.tgz

(what does getRestURL "//?fmt=tgz" mean anyway?)

But I haven't found the respective commands for the other components of a users environment (address book, calendar, mail/folders, tasks, etc).

I'm not so much worried about an entire account being wiped out as much as I am a user accidentally deleting their own stuff. I think I can cover the larger disasters with my full-system backups. I just dont want to have to recover all users when only one may have accidentally erased their address book.

Anyone have any tips on how I might be able to do this?

Thanks,
Michael

[webman]

The command you posted will backup the whole environment - emails, folders, contacts, tags, calendar etc. You can see this by extracting the resulting .tgz compressed archive.

The //?fmt=tgz part tells Zimbra you want a compressed archive of everything to do with that user. It has several different options, but this is an example on how to retrieve just the contacts folder in CSV format:

/Contacts?fmt=csv

[msmcknight]

Where is this stuff documented?

I have looked in the Admin Guide for this stuff and just don't see it. A search for getRestURL doesn't turn up anything. The sections on zmmailbox are very limited in what they explain. Documentation seems a bit lacking... unless, of course, I just don't have the documents that I need.

Thanks
-Michael

[webman]

getRestURL is sort-of "documented" in a 2008 blog post ZCS-to-ZCS Migrations.

[phoenix]

For further information search the wiki for the word 'rest'.

[msmcknight]

Is there a way to do the full backup with an exception? Meaning, for example, if I wanted to backup a users full environment except for one folder in particular?

Thanks,
Michael