Background:
We run the open-source edition of Zimbra mail (5, not 6 yet) and while it's not something that we want to encourage (prevention is better than a cure), we currently have no way of backing up (or restoring) mail in the system. The Network (paid) Edition has automated
backups; various user-contributed solutions exist for the open source edition.
My question in two parts:
- Does anyone have experience performing backups on Zimbra OSE? I'm particularly interested in snapshot backups over ssh/rsync (we use
dirvish
for filesystem backups), and we don't use LVM (/opt/zimbra/store/
is it's own partition, the server is Ubuntu on ESXi). - If backup/restore on a live system is "too hard", I'm happy to settle for backing up only specific shared accounts that are never logged into directly (and hence I have the password for) over IMAP. I'd be interested in recommendations for a command-line email client that
I'm leaning towards the second with something like isync, since the mail system has over 100GB of messages at present.
Best Answer
As no one posted until now, I will mention zmbak script from: http://www.osoffice.de/downloads/viewcategory-7.html.
I'm currently testing it.
After reading it, I can say it's wort a try. I guess you can adapt this to your needs.
HTH