Zextras Carbonio CE / Zimbra CE backup script
#!/bin/bash # Run as root datevar=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` # Destination folder. In this example /opt/backups/zextras mybakdir="/opt/backups/zextras/${datevar}" mkdir -p $mybakdir mkdir -p $mybakdir/ldap_bak # Copy everything but not LDAP rsync --delete -aHK --exclude 'data.mdb' /opt/zextras $mybakdir # Backup LDAP /opt/zextras/common/bin/mdb_copy /opt/zextras/data/ldap/mdb/db $mybakdir/ldap_bak # Stop Carbonio and backup the locked files su - zextras -c "/opt/zextras/bin/zmcontrol stop" /bin/sync rsync --delete -aHK --exclude 'data.mdb' /opt/zextras $mybakdir # Start Carbonio and create a tar file & move. In this example we move to /mnt/smb/zextras/ su - zextras -c "/opt/zextras/bin/zmcontrol start" tar -cf /mnt/smb/zextras/zextras-${datevar}.tar ${mybakdir} Reference: https://community.zextras.com/forum/carbonio-general-thread/mail-backup-and-restore/