backup mail server

[Lee]

We use drbd (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/) and 
linux-ha's (http://www.linux-ha.org/) heartbeat to create two-box 
mailstores (one active, one hotspare, continuously in-sync). Works 
beautifully.

L


On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 10:26 AM, Ken Murchison wrote:

>
>
> Greg Sidleinger wrote:
>>
>> I have a small cyrus setup that only a few users use but I want to 
>> setup
>> some kind of live backup system for it.  I would really just like to
>> have two cyrus servers that keep the same mail boxes on them so if one
>> fails (hardware, software crash, smurfs, etc...) the other will have a
>> back up the mail and continue to receive mail.  I was reading up on 
>> the
>> murder stuff for cyrus but am not sure if it is what I want and if I
>> have the spare systems to support everything.  If anyone could point 
>> me
>> in the right direction it would be great.
>
> Maintaining a hot spare machine _might_ be possible by using the NNTP
> support in Cyrus 2.2, since this is what NNTP does, but nothing has 
> been
> done on this front.
>
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