import mysql file

[Johan Vermeulen]

Timotheus,

yes, that is very helpful.
Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.

Greetings, J.

2016-09-16 6:54 GMT+02:00 Timotheus Pokorra <timotheus at kolab.org>:

> Hello Johan,
>
> > I 'm completely new to Kolab, having set up a test environment
> yesterday. I'
> > ve been planning on doing that ever since I visited the Kolab boot at a
> > Linux meeting in Brussels.
> Welcome to Kolab!
>
> > Also yesterday I requested a calendar backup restore for a user, in our
> > company we use Zarafa. Upstream let me know this can't be done, I can
> > however receive a Mysql file that
> > I have to restore myself to " another Zarafa environment that has to be
> > connected to ldap"
> > I don't have another Zarafa installed.
> >
> > So my question is: can I import a mysql file in Kolab, since I do have
> this
> > test setup.
> > Googling "Linux Kolab Mysql "yielded no results, on the Kolab
> backup-restore
> > page mysqldump is mentioned, but not how to restore a database.
>
> Kolab uses MySQL only for Roundcube caches and settings. The actual
> data (emails, calendar items, etc) is stored in IMAP folders. Calendar
> items are stored in a Kolab specific format. [1] and [2]
>
> I guess the easiest to import data from outside is via an iCalendar
> export (ics file). That works for Google Calendar, I don't know about
> Zarafa. See for import into Roundcube [3].
>
> hope this helps,
>   Timotheus
>
> [1] https://wiki.kolab.org/User:Mollekopf/Drafts/KEP:17 cannot be
> reached because of broken ssl, and generally the wiki is outdated.
> [2] https://cgit.kolab.org/libkolabxml/tree/schemas/ical/
> kolabformat-xcal.xsd
> [3] https://docs.kolab.org/webmail-user-guide/roundcubemail/_plugins/
> calendar/importexport.html
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