Run backup manually

[philmills]

Sometimes its necessary to run backups manually, and Zentyal doesn't currently have a "run now" option via the admin interface.
Everyitme I need to do this, I always end up searching the forums for ages before I find the right commands. This is also made harder by the fact that older versions of Zentyal/Ebox use a different command.  So I figured I should document these CLI commands for other users too.

For zentyal versions 2.2:
Incremental backup: 

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/usr/share/zentyal-ebackup/backup-tool --incrementalFull backup: 

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/usr/share/zentyal-ebackup/backup-tool --full
For zentyal versions 2.0 and earlier:
Incremental backup:

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/usr/share/ebox-ebackup/ebox-remote-ebackup --incrementalFull backup:

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/usr/share/ebox-ebackup/ebox-remote-ebackup --full
If anyone has any other variants to add for other versions please go ahead and add them!

[J. A. Calvo]

Thanks for your documentation effort! I'm sure people will find it useful

[philmills]

You're welcome - I have to give something back to the community for this great product!

[pcready.cl]

thx! 

[Roeltje]

Is there a way to run a manual backup with other options than the default settings?

So if the default setting is incremental backup to ftp, I can run it manual with a full backup to another disk?

[jammin]

zentyal 3.0 has a frontend (System -> Import/Export Configuration), but if your wanting to cron it.

/usr/share/zentyal/make-backup

backups saved in /var/lib/zentyal/conf/backups/

Options available.
  Usage:
  ./make-backup  [OPTION]...
  ./make-backup  --help

  Options:
    --config-backup (default backup mode)
    --configuration-report --bug-report

    --description <description>
    --fallback-to-ro
    --remote-backup <name>
    --progress-id (only needed for web framework)

Sorry i know its a bit of an old topic, but i thought for completeness, i would add it here.