Thanks to everyone for replies. I decided to go for Bacula-only solution though.
So I created 2 jobs: one for users' data and another one for the rest of the Zimbra: === Job 1 === /opt/zimbra/store /opt/zimbra/index /opt/zimbra/mysql/bin/mysqldump /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmslapcat /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmslapcat -c === Job 2 === /opt/zimbra without: /opt/zimbra/store /opt/zimbra/index I'm aware that I risk the server being slightly out-of-sync for the time period between dumps and file-based backups of store and index. What minimize the time period are LVM-snapshots of store and index. -- Silver On 25.11.2011 16:51, Silver Salonen wrote: > 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. > > I'm currently backing up the whole /opt/zimbra and I've already managed > to restore a user's calendar by restoring MySQL-files onto another > server and starting MySQL from them. I guess I was lucky. And there's > also possibility to restore users' .msg files to submit them into Zimbra > server again. So I don't see much problem here.. > > Anyway, I wonder what is there to backup anyway? Store, MySQL, LDAP, ... > something more? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
