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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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