Re: designing a backup mail server

2005-06-27 Thread Patrick Radtke
On Jun 24, 2005, at 2:09 AM, Shaun Feeley wrote:Hi Guys,I'm not sure if I'm at the right place so sorry if this is annoyingbut...I run a cyrus mail server here at Cytopia supporting about 35 users.  Ihave recently purchased some new boxes to upgrade the servers.  I amupgrading the Cyrus server, but

designing a backup mail server

2005-06-23 Thread Shaun Feeley
ror backup cyrus server. Now my question is, can anyone give me any pointers on how to go about designing a backup mail server. I have configured one box as I want, then mirrored in onto another. But I am confused about the DNS setup .. should I create an alias ie mail that can point to eithe

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-12 Thread Jared Watkins
How long have you been using this setup... and have you ever had any problem... or needed to do a failover.. or a failback? Do you dedicate nics for the replication.. are they GB? Do you have any stats on the typical data rates for the replication under normal load? I've thought about using

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-12 Thread Lee
- Are you using other tools like heartbeat or in the same kind ? If yes which tool ? Yes, we're using hearbeat. Heres the requisite config: /etc/ha.d/haresources: servname.host.com 100.102.248.46 datadisk::drbd0 cyrus postfix - From your drbd configuration file I can see that you are using

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-12 Thread marc . bigler
Hi Lee, First thanks for your configuration file... I have a few questions now regarding your current setup: - Are you using other tools like heartbeat or in the same kind ? If yes which tool ? - From your drbd configuration file I can see that you are using /dev/sda6 as physical disk, is that

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-12 Thread Lee
drbd configuration file: resource drbd0 { protocol=C fsckcmd=fsck.ext2 -p -y inittimeout=60 skip-wait=yes disk { do-panic disk-size=66621523 } net { sync-rate=6M tl-size=5000

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-12 Thread Lee
I am in the process of testing out this same setup at present under Linux and I have a couple of questions. 1) How large is your Cyrus installation (# of accounts, # of simultaneous 286 Accounts, usually around 10-15 simultaneous IMAP connections. Total spool size is 4.2 gigs, this includes st

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-11 Thread Roland Pope
- Original Message - From: "Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We use drbd (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/) and > linux-ha's (http://www.linux-ha.org/) heartbeat to create two-box > mailstores (one active, one hotspare, continuously in-sync). Works > beautifully. I am in the process

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-11 Thread Scott Russell
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:38:11PM -0500, Lee wrote: > We use drbd (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/) and > linux-ha's (http://www.linux-ha.org/) heartbeat to create two-box > mailstores (one active, one hotspare, continuously in-sync). Works > beautifully. Are you using the drdb

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-11 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Ken Murchison wrote: > Maintaining a hot spare machine _might_ be possible by using the NNTP > support in Cyrus 2.2, since this is what NNTP does, but nothing has been > done on this front. Well, with the exception of IMAP-specific state, such as ACLs and flags, etc... -Rob

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-11 Thread Lee
We use drbd (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/) and linux-ha's (http://www.linux-ha.org/) heartbeat to create two-box mailstores (one active, one hotspare, continuously in-sync). Works beautifully. L On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 10:26 AM, Ken Murchison wrote: Greg Sidlein

Re: backup mail server

2003-01-11 Thread Greg Sidleinger
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 10:26, Ken Murchison wrote: > > > Greg Sidleinger wrote: > > > > I have a small cyrus setup that only a few users use but I want to setup > > some kind of live backup system for it. I would really just like to > > have two cyrus servers that keep the same mail boxes on the

backup mail server

2003-01-10 Thread Greg Sidleinger
I have a small cyrus setup that only a few users use but I want to setup some kind of live backup system for it. I would really just like to have two cyrus servers that keep the same mail boxes on them so if one fails (hardware, software crash, smurfs, etc...) the other will have a back up the mai