Topic: Backing Up Zarafa via AFFA Question

[Mjohnson]

I am setting up an AFFA backup.  I have Zarafa running as a VM machine with SME 7.4.  Is a "standard" AFFA backup sufficient? 

I seem to recall a section of the wiki talking about backups, but it seems to have been deleted. 

Just checking.  I would think all the email is stored in MySQL so this should not be a problem.  How are the attachments stored?

I am going to run some tests and see how it goes.  Just looking for some pointers.

Thanks

MJ

[pfloor]

  I would think all the email is stored in MySQL so this should not be a problem.  How are the attachments stored?

Emails are stored in MySQL.

Attachments can be stored in either MySQL or as files.  If they are stord in files, by default they are placed in /var/lib/zarafa.  See /etc/zarafa/server.cfg (about line 88) to see how your server is configured.

[Mjohnson]

Thanks for the response.  Per my server.cfg:

# Where to place attachments. Value can be 'database' or 'files'
attachment_storage   = files

# When attachment_storage is 'files', use this path to store the files
attachment_path      = /home/e-smith/files/zarafa

Confirmed that location, which is included in the standard AFFA SME backup locations. 

Good to go.  Thanks again.

MJ