Backup time

[glennbtn]

Hi

Can anyone advise me where I need to go to change the time for backups

Thanks

[SuperBeaker]

Here's the relevant section in the Admin Guide (the zmschedulebackup command).

Backing up using the Standard Method

[LMStone]

You may also edit the zimbra user's crontab directly; there are three lines in there which control the timing/frequency of Full and Incremental backups, and purging of older backups:

To see what you have, as the zimbra user run:

malbec:~ # su - zimbra
zimbra@malbec:~> crontab -l | grep backup
0 1 * * 6 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -f   -a all 
0 1 * * 0-5 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -i  
0 0 * * * /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -del 10d
zimbra@malbec:~>

To edit the above, you need to know a little about how to use the vi editor, and then just run (again as the zimbra user):

crontab -e

Scroll down to the backup section and using vi commands, edit the crontab file directly.

Hope that helps,
Mark

[odeleon]

I would recommend using zmschedulebackup instead... but the end result is the same