Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Charles Marcus wrote: >> Right... while there may be some corner cases where a backup mx *might* >> actually be desired, in most cases, they are far more troublethan they >> are worth. > > Right, it makes more sense to have 2 or more MTAs which basically are > clones of eachother, i.e. with the same functionality. A real backup > would be a hotspare server, again a clone, which you can quickly put > into action whenever needed.
I run a two incoming SMTP servers on separate providers for redundancy. The only reason one has a lower priority is because it's a slightly smaller pipe. I prefer having a second (live) server, if one fails I can usually fix it at my leisure. Saves me much stress and is not really that much work aside from initial setup. >> I prefer simplicity... > > Wait, so you don't like nested raids with lvm for partition management? ;-) I do. But only if you leave the drives and cables unlabeled. I just LOVE playing "Which Drive is it again?" when one fails. :) Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
