zimbra restoring problem: mails are up-to-date but the preference settings are not.

[higeon]

Yesterday I tested the restoring of zimbra and found something strange.

I used A Simple Shell Script Method to backup zimbra every night by cron. And yesterday I built another zimbra server to test the backup-restoring of zimbra. Everything seemed OK untill I tried to login to my account. I got a wrong username/password error. I tried my old password that I changed it a month ago and entered successfully! After checking my mailbox I found that all the mails is up-to-date(I have all the mails just before the backup yesterday), but the Preference settings are not! I remembered I changed the password/theme/layout a month ago but I could not find them in the mailbox restored from yesterday's backup!

So why the backup of zimbra can restore all the mails but can not hold any new Preference setting? Is anything wrong when backup?

[higeon]

Anyone can help?

[Rich Graves]

That data lives in

/opt/zimbra/openldap-data/

But the referenced script should have backed that up along with everything else.

[higeon]

I deleted everything in /backup/zimbra yesterday and got a fresh backup this morning.
After I restored the zimbra with this backup, everything is OK.

I checked the backup shell script.
The shell script does twice sync with the following command:

rsync -avHK --delete /opt/zimbra/ /backup/zimbra

One time is executed when zimbra is alive and the other time is executed after zimbra is stopped.

Is there any problem in this Simple Shell Script ?