Live backup

[Ciro Iriarte]

2010/6/16 Elver Loho <elver.loho at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system
> (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email)
> and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing.
> What other options do I have?
>
> For MySQL I've set up master-slave replication. All the write queries
> are replicated to the slave in near-real-time. It's good enough for
> us. If the main server ever catches fire, we can promote the slave to
> master and have an almost-up-to-the-second copy of things going on.
> For PostgreSQL, I've set up a cronjob to dump the DB off the main
> server every six hours and load it into the backup server. It's as
> real-time as we need it.
> Many folders that keep changing on the main server are rsynced over to
> the backup server once a day.
>
> What can I do with Cyrus that would be similar, but where I wouldn't
> have to deploy scary murder? I don't want to access the Cyrus server
> on the backup server, but I would like the ability to easily turn it
> on after the main server fails and lose, at most, half an hour's worth
> of emails.
>
> Best,
> Elver
>
> elver.loho at gmail.com
> +372 5661 6933
> http://elver.wordpress.com/
> skype: elver.loho
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What about using DRBD?, it should work fine for a active/passive setup.

Regards,

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Ciro Iriarte
http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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