#!/bin/bash # # Copyright (C) 2025 LINUXexpert.org # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License # for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program. If not, see . # Ensure script is run as root or sudo if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then echo "❌ This script must be run as root or with sudo." exit 1 fi # Prompt for email and backup directory read -p "Enter Zimbra username (email address): " EMAIL read -p "Enter backup directory (absolute path) [/opt/zimbra/backups]: " BACKUP_DIR # Reject anything that is not a plain address. $EMAIL is used both as a # command argument and as part of the backup filename, so a "/" here # would write outside $BACKUP_DIR entirely. if ! [[ "$EMAIL" =~ ^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}$ ]]; then echo "❌ Not a valid email address: $EMAIL" exit 1 fi # Use default if none provided BACKUP_DIR=${BACKUP_DIR:-/opt/zimbra/backups} # Ensure directory exists mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR" chown zimbra:zimbra "$BACKUP_DIR" # Generate timestamped filename TIMESTAMP=$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S) BACKUP_FILE="${BACKUP_DIR}/${EMAIL}_${TIMESTAMP}.tgz" # Confirm action echo "Backing up mailbox for $EMAIL to $BACKUP_FILE" read -p "Proceed? (y/n): " CONFIRM if [[ ! "$CONFIRM" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then echo "❌ Backup cancelled." exit 0 fi # Run zmmailbox command as zimbra user echo "📦 Starting backup..." # The script body is single-quoted so nothing is interpolated into it; # $EMAIL arrives as a positional argument instead. Interpolating it (as # this line previously did) let any shell metacharacter in the address # run commands as the zimbra user, which owns the whole mail store. # The redirect is performed by this shell, which is root -- not by the # sudo'd zimbra process. That is intentional (root can always write # here, and a pipe into `tee` would put tee's exit status in $? and mask # a zmmailbox failure), but it means the file lands root-owned inside a # directory chowned to zimbra, so ownership is handed over below. # shellcheck disable=SC2024 sudo -u zimbra bash -c '/opt/zimbra/bin/zmmailbox -z -m "$1" getRestURL "//?fmt=tgz"' _ "$EMAIL" > "$BACKUP_FILE" # Verify success if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then chown zimbra:zimbra "$BACKUP_FILE" 2>/dev/null || true echo "✅ Backup completed: $BACKUP_FILE" else echo "❌ Backup failed. Check if the user exists or zmmailbox is working." rm -f "$BACKUP_FILE" exit 1 fi