Archive for July, 2010
Backing up your Zimbra Desktop data
This week my companies email account has changed from Exchange to Zimbra Collaboration Server due to my participation in an internal pilot program. This is great because I’m already using the Zimbra server and also the desktop client privately for a while and I’m really happy with it. What I’ve never thought about before is the backup procedure of my local stored folders which are not synchronized with the cloud. In my private environment that was never an issue for me because my email account has no restricted size. With the companies account I got a limit of 2 GB which is a lot, but not enough when storing all PDF and PPT files as well as the archived mails. Because I’m a Mac user and usually using Time Machine for my backup I was wondering if there is another way to do a backup of the Zimbra Desktop data including my local stored folders. Some googleing gave me the final hint!
Linux as a guest
I’m really surprised that it works, but a guy from France got a Linux VM working with the VMware View Agent. I don’t speak French but what I get from his article is that he used Xrdp in the VM. I guess he used Wine, a Windows emulator for Linux to get the View Agent running. It’s awesome, check his blog. But don’t forget: This is highly unsupported.
