replication

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Tue Apr 22 13:49:12 EDT 2014


On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 22:34 +0600, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> If I'm using replication, and master goes offline for a moment, and I 
> have some mail delivered on replica (from SMTP, beacuse I kinda have 
> SMTP configured to deliver on localhost, and IMAP master is also a CARP 
> master), how do I handle this situtation when master is back online (and 
> the mail starts to be delivered on master, and some mail is technically 
> lost, because it's on replica) ?

If this happens, and you cut-over mail delivery, the slave should become
the master.  They should flip roles.  Cyrus replication is not
multi-master [at least not yet - that will be an awesome day].

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA



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