Replication to more than one replica?

Rob Mueller robm at fastmail.fm
Fri Aug 10 22:57:36 EDT 2007


> It would be a way to keep a second offline replica for backing up to a
> tape archive, which is what I plan to do. I realize it's slower than the 
> standard rolling replication but the archive is mainly for "ooops I 
> deleted that mail" kind of scenario. In fact, I'm testing the setup right 
> know with a list of all users. First run will take a while but further 
> ones should only take a couple of minutes.
>
> Of course this setup is a workaround and it gets increasingly more 
> difficult with the number of users, here we only have around 500 although 
> many mailboxes are quite large.

That's all fine. Just make sure you only have one sync_client in rolling 
replication mode pulling log files from a particular dir at a time.

Rob



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