Disaster Recovery Support

[asmartin]

This looks like a great tool for Zimbra Open Source edition, however I am curious as to why it is stated that it does not support DR. If you have a copy of backups from a live Zimbra server created with zmbkpose, why couldn't you use it to restore those backups to have a fully-functioning copy of the server on new hardware?

[ancientz]

I would say that DR is a little more complex than just returning the user data. On a disaster with your cluster, you would loose all configuration, and if you have a multi-server cluster, thats is going to take a while to rebuild, and only after you rebuild the cluster you would restore the backup. So what I mean is, you can return the user data, but not the whole cluster, only the data and configuration of the user, that is not a disaster recover but actually only data backup.

[asmartin]

Thanks for the clarification. So if I have a second server where I've also
installed Zimbra and made the same system tweaks (e.g. /etc/sysctl.conf),
then zmbkpose would be able to completely restore all data (including
things like CoS configuration, Zimbra postfix settings, etc)?

On Jul 15, 2016 4:48 AM, "ancientz" notifications@github.com wrote:

I would say that DR is a little more complex than just returning the user
data. On a disaster with your cluster, you would loose all configuration,
and if you have a multi-server cluster, thats is going to take a while to
rebuild, and only after you rebuild the cluster you would restore the
backup. So what I mean is, you can return the user data, but not the whole
cluster, only the data and configuration of the user, that is not a
disaster recover but actually only data backup.

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[ancientz]

No, as I understand, zmbkpose only backups the user configuration and data, that is, he's preferences on zimbra and the actual mail, calendar and contacts, not anything else. That's why Its not considered a DR tool.

[asmartin]

Thanks for the clarification