crandall348 wrote:What is the best way to backup Zimbra Open source running on a Hyper-V VM?

Are you using hyper-v core or hyper-v on a full server install? If on core I don't know..if on full server install just use windows backup. That's what i've done for quite some time.

Product name: Zimbra Desktop Product version: 7.2.1 Build ID: 11637 Release type: GA OS Platform: Windows 7 x86 6.1 Time of event: 2013-03-06 14:13:21 Error type: service.FAILURE Item ID: 7 Error summary: Google address book synchronization failed-----------------------------------------------------...

is it normal for zimbra desktop to take over 3 days and not only be unfinished with mail sync but not even get the calendar data and contact data from google apps as well?
I'm on a core i-3 540 machine with 8 gigs of ram and 50/10 internet(that's constant speed not up to or bursts).

went a different way. got 7.2 operating so i could at least get to the user accounts..then i exported each one and am now installing a fresh 8.0/ubuntu LTS server into which i will import the user accounts..much quicker for me AND i get the assurance of an undamaged install..:)

After a massive server failure i've been rebuilding. I now have the system up and running with 7.1.2 but when i try to get server stats from the webadmin I get the following window: server error encountered message: system failure: exception during auth {RemoteManager: mail.faithsbc.org>zimbra@m...

got it..7.2.0. Thanks everyone time to start rebuilding..:)

[quote user="ccelis5215"]Thanks bdial! That's the right file to look for.
ccelis[/QUOTE]

duh had to enable hidden file viewing..:)

[quote user="bdial"]/opt/zimbra/.install_history is probably the best file to look[/QUOTE]

jsut got my recovered data back and .install_history isn't there

that's what i am looking for..so i can reinstall this zimbra onto it's new upgraded vm home..:) Thanks!

Major oversight on my part. i did not notate what version i had installed when i had a massive failure at my church's zimbra server. I have the data back but i need to know what version of the system i had. I have the full file listing. How can i tell what version i had installed from a file lis...