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For more information on planning backup schedules and using the zmschedulebackup command, read the Zimbra backup/restore blog post at http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/45-admins-and-backuprestore.html.
*[http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/45-admins-and-backuprestore.html Zimbra Backup/Restore blog post] -- contains more information on planning backup schedules and using the zmschedulebackup command.
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Revision as of 19:32, 5 January 2010

For the most recent information on this CLI, including syntax and description, see ZCS Administrator's Guide Network Edition > Appendix A Command-Line Utilities.

ZCS 6.0.x

  • zmschedulebackup now supports -u for uncompressed zip blob storage.

zmschedulebackup

This command is used to schedule backups and add the command to your cron table. The default schedule is as follows:

  • Full backup, every Saturday at 1:00 a.m. (0 1 * * 6)
  • Incremental backup, Sunday through Friday at 1:00 a.m. (0 1 * * 0-5)

Each crontab entry is a single line composed of five fields separated by a blank space. Specify the fields as follows:

  • minute — 0 through 59
  • hour — 0 through 23
  • day of month — 1 through 31
  • month — 1 through 12
  • day of week — 0 through 7 (0 or 7 is Sunday, or use names)

Type an asterisk (*) in the fields you are not using.

This command automatically writes the schedule to the crontab.

Syntax

zmschedulebackup {-q|-s|-A|-R|-F|-D}[f|i|d|] [“schedule”]

Description

Name Command Name Description
help -h Displays the usage options for this command.
query -q Default command. Displays the existing Zimbra backup schedule.
save -s Save the schedule. Allows you to save the schedule command to a text file so that you can quickly regenerate the backup schedule when the system is restored.
flush -F Removes the current schedule and cancels all scheduled backups.
append -A Adds an additional specified backup to the current schedule
replace -R Replaces the current schedule with the specified schedule.
default -D Replaces the current schedule with the default schedule.
compress -z Compress email blobs with zip
target -t Can be used only to designate a full back target location. The default is /opt/zimbra/backup.

Note: You cannot designate a target for incremental backups. If a target (-t) location is added for incremental scheduled backups, it is ignored.

account -a Account specific. The default is all accounts.
Incremental Backup i <time specifier> Incremental backup. Incremental backup is not used with the auto-grouped backup mode.
Full Backup f Full backup.
Delete d <arg> Delete backups.


Examples

  • To schedule the default full and incremental backup
zmschedulebackup -D
  • To replace the existing schedule with a new schedule
zmschedulebackup -R f [“schedule”]
  • To add an additional full backup to the existing schedule
zmschedulebackup -A f [“schedule”]
  • To add an additional incremental backup to the existing schedule
zmschedulebackup -A i [“schedule”]
  • To display the existing schedules
zmschedulebackup -q
  • To display the schedules on one line as a command, so that they can be copied to a text file and saved to be used if the application needs to be restored.
zmschedulebackup -s

ZCS 5.0

ZCS 4.5

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Verified Against: ZCS 6.0.x Date Created: 5/2/2006
Article ID: https://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=CLI_zmschedulebackup_Network_Edition_only Date Modified: 2010-01-05



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