From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 12: 6:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D666E37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from floyd.gnulife.org (floyd.gnulife.org [199.86.41.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1327443E81 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) Received: by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6ABA432C9; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:12:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C3C432C6; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:12:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:12:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Jamie To: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" Cc: "'jeremy@cableaz.com'" , Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021007141027.H6069-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > -> > -> > ->-------------------------------------------------------------------- > ->mail2web - Check your email from the web at > ->http://mail2web.com/ . > -> > -> > -> > ->To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > ->with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message