We've been running Zimbra on NetApp for quite a number of years now. Started with 7-mode, switched to c-mode in 2014.

Production is all FC LUNs to RHEL servers. Which we FlexClone for test/dev and restores (all via iSCSI). We also SnapVault to a secondary location (access via iSCSI). We do daily snapshots, most times they are fine. Occasionally the snapshot isn't consistent, so we have to go back a day. But that's fairly rare. We don't quiesce the filesystem or make use of SnapDrive.

Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss more.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Natxo Asenjo" natxo.asenjo@gmail.com To: toasters@teaparty.net Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 4:06:54 PM Subject: zimbra netapp storage

hi,

is anybody running zimbra mail groupware with Netapp storage?

Do you have any tips on how to backup up zimbra using snapshots?

We are now using zmbackup/zmrestore to a nfs volume, but that is not really very efficient nor fast. I was wondering if any of you has implemented a better solution.

Thanks in advance.

hi all,

Thanks for your answers, they are very reassuring.

We use snapprotect and our zimbra host is a vmware vm on a nfs datastore, so if I understand correctly, we can just back it up using the vmware media agent and for restores we can create a new vm from the snapshot and restore from there. Every now and then this could fail because the vm was not in a consistent space, but your experience is that is mostly works

Mark, what do you mean exactly by 'restore back to the maildrop'? Sorry for newbie question, but I have not used zimbra so long.

Thanks again. I hope these questions are not too OT for the list.

-- Groeten, natxo