Restore Zimbra from open source backup archives
Last week I (unluckily) had to restore a Zimbra from a backup I took with the zmback.sh script.
While the procedure is pretty simple, there’s no clear statement on how to do it, also because support is given only on the forum post which is pretty long and not easy to scan. Given that typically when you are restoring customers and users are pressing you like hell, having easy restore steps saves you some sweating.
Just for the record, zmbak.sh provides a full backup of a Zimbra installation. This means you can restore the full installation, and not like in Network Edition a single mailbox!
Android and Zimbra won’t sync emails
Scenario: Zimbra 6.0.9 Network Edition, with mobile enabled.
Client: Samsung with Android 2.2.1.
Situation: the phone would connect to the server, sync contacts and calendar but NOT email!
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Compiling Zimbra server on Ubuntu 8.04LTS
Last version of Zimbra collaboration, version 6.0.6, had been subject to several delays, which lead to a gap of nearly three weeks since the first proposed release date. These dates are considered target, thus flexible. Normally, I wouldn’t get crazy about release dates. Yes, while you may wish to get your hands on, because it fixes the most annoying but you ever had, you can wait some more days anyway.
But 6.0.6 had several fixes I really needed at some place. And after the second delay, I decided to try to compile Zimbra from source. Brave you think? Me too…
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Set apache2 to proxy Zimbra
In some configurations it’s desirable to share apache2 and Zimbra on the same host. This would mean that either one of the two services shuold run on non-standard port, that is 80 and 443. If this is not an issue,
- change the ports apache2 is listening to in /etc/apache2/ports.conf
- change the portz zimbra is listening to using zmprov (zmprov gs zimbraserver zimbraMailPort 81)
But thanks to apache2‘s mod_proxy, you can have both services on the standard web ports.
10.16.10Configure PHPMyFAQ for Zimbra LDAP auth
PHPMyFaq is an excellent open source PHP based FAQ software. It helps you or your organization, like our, to keep good documentation, shared, and accessible everywhere.
It provides several functionalities, but the one we use the most is keeping articles and making search very fast and easy.
As every web based software has its own users db, but can also authenticate against an external LDAP directory, like Zimbra.
06.7.10Developing Zimlets
So, here I am again, after some time.
Today we’ll talk about Zimlets, as we released our first one. Well, it was an Admin extension, to be precise.
Here at YetOpen we believe a lot in Zimbra, the wonderful open source collaboration suite. And all the efforts we spend in studying, helping and distributing it are here to prove it. One more step forward was moved today, with the release of an extension for the admin interface, used to integrate mail accounts with the powerful mail backup solution hosted by Promo, a local service provider.
