Zimbra Suite Plus/Zimbra Backup Plus/Smartscan

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Zimbra Backup Plus - Smartscan

What is the Smart Scan?

The Smart Scan is the main coherency check for the health of your backup system. It's "Smart" because it operates only on accounts modified since the last SmartScan, hence improving system performance and decreasing scan time exponentially.

By default a SmartScan is scheduled to be executed each night (if "Scan Operation Scheduling" is enabled in the Zimbra Backup Plus section of the Zimbra Suite Plus Administrative Zimlet). Once a week, on a day set by the user, a Purge is executed together with the SmartScan to clear Zimbra Backup Plus's datastore from any deleted item that exceeded the retention period.

How does it work?

The Zimbra Backup Plus engine scans all the items on the Zimbra Datastore looking for items modified after the last SmartScan updating any outdated entry and creating any item not yet present in the backup while flagging as deleted any item found in the backup and not in the Zimbra Datastore.

Finally, it updates all Configuration metadata in the backup, so that Domains, Accounts, COSs and Server Configurations are stored.

When is a Smart Scan executed?

When the Zimbra Backup Plus module is started.
Daily, if the Scan Operation Scheduling is enabled in the Zimbra Suite Plus Administration Zimlet.
When the Real Time Scanner is re-enabled via the Zimbra Suite Plus Administration Zimlet after being previously disabled.

Running a Smart Scan

Starting the scan via the Zimbra Suite Plus Administration Zimlet

Open the Zimbra suite Plus Administration Zimlet

Click the Zimbra Backup Plus tab (be sure to have a valid License).

Click "Run Smartscan"

Starting the scan via the Zimbra Suite Plus CLI

To start a FullScan via the Zimbra Suite Plus CLI the "doSmartScan" command is available

Syntax:
   zxsuite backup doSmartScan [attr1 value1 [attr2 value2...]]


PARAMETER LIST

NAME                TYPE                  
notifications(O)    Email Address[,..]    

(M) == mandatory parameter, (O) == optional parameter

Usage example:

zxsuite backup dosmartscan notifications user1@example.com,user2@example.com
Performs a smart scan and sends notifications to user1@example.com and user2@example.com

Checking the status of a running scan

To check the status of a running scan via the Zimbra Suite Plus CLI the "monitor" command is available

Syntax:
   zxsuite backup monitor {operation_uuid} [attr1 value1 [attr2 value2...]]


PARAMETER LIST

NAME                 TYPE      
operation_uuid(M)    Uiid      
operation_host(O)    String    

(M) == mandatory parameter, (O) == optional parameter

Aug 25, 2016 - Know more »