Backup issues

[telescop]

I'm new (and green) zibra admin. I am trying to backup zimbra before performing an upgrade. As zimbra user and I am getting Permission denied errors for:

/opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/smtp.crt
/opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/smtp.key
/opt/zimbra/Library

Is this something to be concerned about. Sorry if this is a dumb question but I am nervous about doing this upgrade as I am new to zimbra

[kechols]

on my backups, i run /etc/init.d/zimbra stop
then do a tar -cpP /opt/zimbra |gzip > mail_`date +%F`.tar.gz
finally push that off to a remote server
and the only thing i don't get are the dev's that get replaced if not present.

[telescop]

I just do

zmcontrol stop
cp -rp /opt/zimbra /opt/zimbra_3_0

and got all these errors on permissions, should I do this as root?

cp: /opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/smtpd.crt: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/.saveconfig/smtpd.key: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/Library: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/incoming: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/bounce: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/corrupt: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/defer: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/deferred: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/flush: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/hold: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/active: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/maildrop: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/unix.smtp-amavis: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/inet.smtp: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/master.pid: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/unix.bounce: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/unix.cleanup: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/unix.defer: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/unix.lmtp: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/unix.showq: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/unix.smtp: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/pid/inet.127.0.0.1:10025: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/private: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/public: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/saved: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool/trace: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/incoming: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/bounce: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/corrupt: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/defer: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/deferred: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/flush: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/hold: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/active: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/maildrop: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/unix.smtp-amavis: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/inet.smtp: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/master.pid: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/unix.bounce: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/unix.cleanup: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/unix.defer: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/unix.lmtp: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/unix.showq: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/unix.smtp: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/pid/inet.127.0.0.1:10025: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/private: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/public: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/saved: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/spool/trace: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/sbin/pppd: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/sbin/visudo: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/sbin/vpnd: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/libexec/pt_chown: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/libexec/security_authtrampoline: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/libexec/security_privportserver: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/libexec/ssh-keysign: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/libexec/utmp_update: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/bin/sudo: Permission denied
cp: /opt/zimbra/java/bin/wx-config: No such file or directory

[jholder]

Yes,
if you copy/rsync/tar the files, you need to do so as root.

-john