Back up question

[drsyn]

During the weekly "full" backup, run through I assume a cron job, include backing up the ldap directory, database, index directory etc. or does this need to be done via the CLI? How about a full restore?

thanks

[carlsanders]

What OS are you running on? If unix, do you know your unix
command line at all?

[drsyn]

I am running the server on Mac OS X 10.4.11

[carlsanders]

You can use rsync, I believe. I have not used any other
backup scheme, available with zimbra or not, so take it
for what's it's worth!

Anyway,

Create a shell script to do something like the following,
then put it into cron to run in the wee hours of the morning:

/sbin/service zimbra stop
sleep 10
/usr/bin/rsync -avz /opt/zimbra username@someotherserver:/backups/zimbra
/sbin/service zimbra start


You create a user account on a remote server and then use openssl
to generate a key (er, long story there, google openssl), or you can
even use rsync to just put a copy of zimbra onto a local volume, like this:

/usr/sbin/rsync -avz /opt/zimbra /backups

This creates a complete copy daily, and it can be fully restored should
things go belly up without issue.

AFAIK, zimbra keeps everything, and I mean everything, you need
in the /opt/zimbra directory (pretty much, except for OS-specific stuff
like startup and shutdown scripts, but you can add that to the script
above).

Zimbra admins - please correct me if I'm wrong about this...

[jpbuse]

Check out this thread. There are some scripts examples all using rsync.

Simple backup script for OSE version

Also, Bombich has a good tutorial for setting up the SSH keys at Bombich.com: Remote Backup of Mac OS X Using rsync Look at the "Create authentication keys" part and follow the instructions.

To generate the ssh key on the zimbra box, run something like `ssh-keygen -t dsa -C "my comment"`