Full Server Backup and Restore of “open source version”

[marcos.gw]

I installed two servers
virtual.dominio.local 192.168.100.231
I ran backup.sh and copy all


When I try to run restore.sh in
virtual.dominio.local 192.168.100.231

[zimbra@virtual tmp]$ ./restore.sh marcos reset
Start to restore => *** Mai 29 11:55:50 BRT 2009
Check account [marcos] ==> NO, [marcos] not exist
[zimbra@virtual tmp]$

What is the problem ???

[tiger2000]

actually, I'm not sure if i understand your question.

but i guess you don't have "macros" account in second machine. these backup scripts don't handle the account creation if it's not existing.

therefour, you can create the account manually , or add "zmprov ca xxxx@domain pass1111" in my restore.sh script when account is not there.

[marcos.gw]

Yes, I created, but don't work.
Would be the unique account id ?
For example:
marcos in server 1 don`t is the same marcos in server 2. Because it have different id`s ( like active directory for example).

[tiger2000]

did these two server with same domain name?

if you read my script and you will find actually i'm just checking whether system has this account or not by : zmprov ga <account@domain> . so if you are backup in A.domain and restore to B.domain, that will not work.

[marcos.gw]

Yes, Of course.
The same domain, same user name and I saw your script.

I will try again.

I can to restore in same server, but I can`t in second server.

Thanks a lot.

[Ash-Fox]

I've not read through each of the posts, but I found the easiest way to backup the opensource version of Zimbra is:
1) Shutting it down for a minute.
2) Doing a snapshot of the LVM partition.
3) Starting Zimbra again.
4) rsynching that snapshot I made to the backup server.
5) deleting LVM snapshot once completed.

This pretty much means if I need restore from backup, all I need to do is rsync it back, no reimporting of data to MySQL/ldap etc.

A minute of downtime at 3AM isn't really going to effect anyone here. If you're running a mission critical setup that needs to be up 24/7, non-stop. One wonders why you aren't running a grid setup (or using the commerical versions) that would easilly allow you to turn one server off for a 'clean' back up without interupting the service since the other servers are still online.

[marcos.gw]

What mean ?

Doing a snapshot of the LVM partition.


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[Ash-Fox]

Originally Posted by marcos.gw

What mean ?

Doing a snapshot of the LVM partition.


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Means something like

lvcreate -L592M -s -n dbbackup /dev/ops/databases
mkdir /mnt/ops/dbbackup
mount /dev/ops/dbbackup /mnt/ops/dbbackup
rsync username@host /mnt/ops/dbbackup --delete -a

[guillaume142]

Hi all,

I don't manage to use the backup.sh script to backup one account (the script to backup ALL accounts is working perfectly).

I have entered my domain name in the backup.sh script (ie i have replaced the domain="@my.domain" with my real domain name) but when i launch "backup.sh admin@domain.com" i receive the "cat: admin@domain.com: No such file or directory" message.
Any clue ?
Thanks a lot
Guillaume

[tiger2000]

guillaume142,
backup.sh is going to read accounts from one file, thus backup.sh needs filename as parameter (not the account name).

fyi.