kolab3 - Backup

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On Thursday, February 21, 2013 08:08:26 AM Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any howto already in existence describing which parts of a kolab3
> installation need backing up to preserve userdata in case of catastrophic
> failure?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 

You will want to (at least) back up your IMAP mail spool, MySQL and LDAP. It 
is suggested /var/lib/imap/, /var/spool/imap/ and /var/lib/mysql/ are located 
on a LVM logical volume with sufficient space in the volume group to take 
snapshots[1,2], and we provide a script to export LDAP[3].

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

[1] http://docs.kolab.org/en-
US/Kolab_Groupware/3.0/html/Community_Installation_Guide/chap-
Community_Installation_Guide-Preparing_the_System.html#sect-
Community_Installation_Guide-Preparing_the_System-Partitioning

[2] http://planet.ergo-project.org/blog/jmeeuwen/2010/04/06/backup-mysql-lvm-
snapshots

[3] http://git.kolab.org/kolab-scripts/tree/utils/backup-389ds

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