> Hi. > > Is anyone backing up Zimbra on-the-fly? I don't think taking server > offline for pure file-based copy is a modern method of doing things. > Neither do I want to use zmbackup, because as I understand, that dumps > all the mailboxes (which are on disk anyway) to separate files which > would just waste so much space.
Hi Silver... The "Network Edition" (eg: commercial/pay-for) version of Zimbra supports internal full and incremental backups that it does on-the-fly and automatically once configured. At our client sites, we use Bacula to backup the automatic Zimbra backups directory structure. It's a pretty reliable method of backing up Zimbra, and I have unfortunately had the experience of having to fully test process this when a client's Zimbra server lost 4 drives in a 6-drive RAID5 array at the same time. :( The good new though is that we were able to rebuild the Zimbra server (virtual this time), install the Zimbra software, restore Zimbra's automatic full and inc backups from our Bacula backup, and then re-import all Zimbra accounts/emails/calendars etc I think with the non-commercial "Community Edition" (assuming that is what you are using) you are best off running an live rsync of the /opt/zimbra directory structure, then shutdown Zimbra services (zmcontrol stop), run an offline rsync of the /opt/zimbra directory structure to the same place, restart Zimbra services (zmcontrol start, THEN run a Bacula backup of the rsync'ed directory. On smaller sites using the non-commercial edition of Zimbra, we do those steps in a RunBefore script for the Zimbra job. Does this cost you a few minutes of Zimbra downtime each night? Yes, but only a few at most while the offline rsync runs. But if you are running the non-commercial version the benefit of this method is in your cost savings - IMHO. Hope this helps. -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
