CLI command to extract/read a Zimbra backup 'item' file?

[rbsf]

ZxBackup's "items" appear to be stored as gzip'd files, and can be manually extracted as plain-text readable files.

For example,

cd ~

file /opt/zimbra/backup/zextras/items/zx/zxw...Nmg\=
	/opt/zimbra/backup/zextras/items/zx/zxw...Nmg\=: gzip compressed data, from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT)

mv \
 /opt/zimbra/backup/zextras/items/zx/zxw...Nmg\= \
 ~/zxw...Nmg\=.gz

gunzip ~/zxw...Nmg\=.gz
cat zxw...Nmg\=
	... plain text readable ...

Is there a Zextras CLI command to do this -- extract and read an item in shell, without touching/disturbing the original -- more simply/directly?

[Cine]

Hello rbsf!

If you wish to inspect the content of a backupped blob file in the items/ subdirectory of the backup path, I suggest to use `zless` instead of mv+gunzip+cat. Reading the file with zless will not impact the backup system in any way.

If you wish to inspect the backupped data for a Zimbra item, you can use the `zxsuite backup getItem` command to see all stored informations about an item.
The syntax is:

 zxsuite backup getItem {account} {item} [attr1 value1 [attr2 value2...]]

PARAMETER LIST


NAME              TYPE               EXPECTED VALUES   DEFAULT
account(M)        Account Name/ID                      
item(M)           Integer                              
backup_path(O)    Path                                 /opt/zimbra/backup/zextras/


(M) == mandatory parameter, (O) == optional parameter

while an example output is:

:~$ zxsuite backup getItem 04ed586a-66d2-48ec-9b7f-5c6e84951c2a 9440 backup_path /opt/zimbra/backup/zextras.tmp/

        type                                                message
        deleted                                             false
        metadata path                                       /opt/zimbra/backup/zextras.tmp/accounts/04ed586a-66d2-48ec-9b7f-5c6e84951c2a/items/40/9440
        blob path                                           /opt/zimbra/backup/zextras.tmp/items/Fi/FixBoFeuuxC,RzFlT1zgrTPSc0g=
        last modified                                       10/12/2012 23:30:27
        sender                                              admin@example.com
        recipients                                          
        subject                                             Daily mail report for 2012-12-10
        conversation id                                     -9440
        fragment                                            Grand Totals -- messages 6 received 6 delivered 0 forwarded 0 deferred 0 bounced 0 rejected (0%) 0 reject warnings 0 held 0 discarded (0%) 10193 ...

the account can be both expressed as an email address, for accounts which exist on the system, or as a zimbraId for deleted accounts that are still available in the backup.
In the near future we'll add the option to dump the blob content straight from this command.

Have a nice day,
Cine