Getting backup to network drive

[rickvv]

Can someone point me to the steps to take, in order to get the Zimbra nightly backup copied off the DMZ over to a network drive (Windows server) inside the LAN?
Running 5.0.4_GA_2101.UBUNTU6 UBUNTU6 NETWORK edition.

Thanks,
Rickvv

[borngunners]

I am looking for the same thing... I will follow this thread

[Hivos]

I suggest you mount the windows share on your Zimbra server and do an rsync.

Add the Windows share to your /etc/fstab:

//server/share /mnt/backup cifs credentials=/root/mount.c,rw 0 0

contents of /root/mount.c (chmod 600 this file!)

username=yourUserName
password=yourPassword

And rsync the lot:

rsync /opt/zimbra/backup /mnt/backup/

When using a linux box as the rsync target, use:

rsync -aH /opt/zimbra/backup /mnt/backup/

to keep permissions and hardlinks intact

(untested, no warranties, just a suggestion ;-) )

[Dirk]

That seems like a perfectly fine suggestion, I'd try to get a linux server running in the lan to take the files instead of a windows box, but that's just me.

I'm concerned that there could be an issue copying this to an NTFS formatted drive though, due to a loss of permissions.

I'd suggest running a small scrict to tar the backup into a single file, and then moving that file.

[Hivos]

Originally Posted by Dirk

That seems like a perfectly fine suggestion, I'd try to get a linux server running in the lan to take the files instead of a windows box, but that's just me.

I'm concerned that there could be an issue copying this to an NTFS formatted drive though, due to a loss of permissions.

I'd suggest running a small scrict to tar the backup into a single file, and then moving that file.

I totally agree... on a linux box, use "rsync -aH" instead of a plain "rsync", this keeps permissions intact as well as all the hardlinks, which will save you tons of storage.

[lwinstead]

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to say that (while my FOSS install was working) I followed the backup scripts here:http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?tit..._Script_Method

The only thing I changed was that I'm not FTP'ing the backup archive anywhere, but rather simply cp'ing it out to a mounted NTFS network share. It works/worked perfectly and has been tested with a recent restore, so I know it's solid.

[Hivos]

Thanks for sharing your experiences. However, this thread was about a network edition backup, which differs quite a lot from the OS procedure you mentioned. The NE edition backs up using hardlinks to point to the same data in different points in time. This saves tons of storage which is especially useful for large deployments.

[lwinstead]

Hivos,

I understood that from the get go. I guess I stressed the wrong point, or you read my addition to the thread wrong; I wasn't trying to stress the backup procedure, as pertinent to the FOSS edition, but rather that creating an archive and then copying that out to a CIFS share works nicely for me. That's it.