Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:38:06 +0200 From: Volker Kindermann <freebsd@secspace.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the best possible email failover solution Message-ID: <20040625103806.40dfda61@cherub.home.volker.de> In-Reply-To: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Hi Bill, > I know how to set up failover with a backup MX. That's not what I'm > looking for. We have a cyrus-imap server with lots of users > connecting via IMAP, while everything gets backed up, this only > happens once a night. Thus, if the server were to go up in smoke > right before the backup occurred, we'd lose something like 23 hours > worth of emails. have you thought of using distributed filesystems like afs or intermezzo? I did some research on this a few years ago and at that time they were way off from using in a production environment. But they improved certainly and perhaps it's exactly what you're looking for. -volker
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