Comments on: Zimbra ZCS 5.0 GA - is it really a GA release?

By: Colin Charles Agenda » Blog Archive » Zimbra puts hot backups for OSS edition to a vote

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:30:56 +0000

[...] the hot backup is only available in the Network Edition (which costs money). I remember the pain in upgrading Zimbra, and it would have been great if there was a hot backup with an easy restore [...]

By: John Holder

John Holder — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:28:37 +0000

Thanks :)
We will be providing an upgrade path for the LTS releases!

Please let me know if you need any help. That’s what I’m here for. You have my address.
-john

By: byte

byte — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:26:36 +0000

Thanks for responding John. I’ll be sure to try this out in a RHEL4 VM image in a while, and tell you more when time permits.

Incidentally, your recommendation of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS… there should be a new LTS release soon, I believe, will the upgrade path be supported? I noticed on the Wiki that there was a RHEL4->RHEL5 migration guide (which was really simple, turn off Zimbra, upgrade OS, be happy :P)

Thanks!

By: John Holder

John Holder — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:35:46 +0000

Not a fib. CentOS is not exactly compatible with RHEL.
They strive for 100% compatibility, and it works great in most cases. . but not in this one. See: http://bugs.centos.org/view_all_bug_page.php

By: byte

byte — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:33:23 +0000

Yes john, I just saw your announcement. Does it not seem to be a bit of a fib though, seeing that CentOS is exactly compatible with RHEL?

By: John Holder

John Holder — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:28:10 +0000

Colin,
The issue with the Scalar :: Util seems to be a CentOS only issue. It works fine on RHEL. We only support RHEL, not CentOS.

john

By: Chris Samuel

Chris Samuel — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:02:56 +0000

Yeah, got to say that the impression with Zimbra 5 is that it’s not had thorough testing yet. :-(