Doing Cyrus *right* for a large installation

[Rudy Gevaert]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:23:09PM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:55:30PM -0500, Wesley Craig wrote:
> > On 16 Jan 2009, at 10:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> > > No we don't have murder running (yet)
> > >
> > > I am not confident enough in the setup.  I have seen to many bad
> > > messages on the list.
> > >
> > > But I haven't set it up yet, so I may be 'scared' for nothing.
> > 
> > There are always bugs, of course, but in recent versions, replication  
> > is working very well.  IMHO, the major piece of basic functionality  
> > missing for replication to be 100% solid is an out of band method to  
> > verify that it's working properly.  I know of several (many?)  
> > solutions that people have in place.  Perhaps something will be  
> > contributed soon.
> 
> Yeah - ours is way complex, because it checks at lots of different
> points!
> 
> Unfortunately, it needs to log in separately as each user to check
> seen database information.  I'd much prefer to be able to do the whole
> thing as the admin user.

I'm using the fastmail patches to check replication.

The only thing that I'm not doing is on a regular basis.  But when I
need to restore from backup and reconstruct a mailbox I check the
replica with my script.
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Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
Groep Systemen                     Systems group
Universiteit Gent                  Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie               www.UGent.be
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