backup mail server

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Sat Jan 11 10:26:23 EST 2003



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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