Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:12:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> To: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> Cc: "'jeremy@cableaz.com'" <jeremy@cableaz.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <20021007141027.H6069-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> In-Reply-To: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF23@XMB03CRDGE>
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What other suggestions do you have for building a reliable mailserver?
And is there a way to set up a couple of servers so that if one goes down,
the other automatically takes over with the same mail spool if possible?
We also need to re-engineer here, and I would like to take that into
consideration. Thanks!
- Jamie
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Lapinski, Michael (Research) wrote:
>
> A practice ive usually taken is to keep the dirs
> where a lot of space is used on different physical
> devices and keep them redundant (raided /var/spool).
>
> -Running a real mail server off of a 1 hard disk
> install isn't wise. (What happens when your 1 disk
> mail server loses its disk?)
>
> -keeping system bins and config on the same physical
> device with data that is constatly causing reading
> and writing to disk (new mail coming in, old mail deleting)
> isnt a good idea either. As the disks for this take
> more abuse than the disk that just has the system installed
>
> I think you need to architect a real mail server instead of
> trying to rescue what you currently have.
>
> -mtl
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Michael Lapinski
> Computer Scientist
> GE Research
>
>
> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
> - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
>
>
> ->-----Original Message-----
> ->From: jeremy@cableaz.com [mailto:jeremy@cableaz.com]
> ->Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:56 PM
> ->To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> ->Subject: Server out of space -- Need suggestions
> ->
> ->
> ->Quick question for anyone out there. I have a mail server
> ->that is running
> ->out of space. That being said, I have two choices... Should I
> ->backup all the
> ->necessary info, and add a bigger drive and then reload and restore, or
> ->should I add a second drive and move all the excess data to that? Any
> ->suggestions would be helpful.
> ->
> ->Thanks,
> ->JB
> ->
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