A friend had this running like this before, but ran into performance
issues. Maybe worth revisiting?
Regards
Colin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Siddall [mailto:cobalt (at mark) elirion.net]
> Sent: 19 June 2006 18:30
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:05800] Re: Redundancy
>
> Colin Jack wrote:
> > I am not an linux expert, but was wondering whether in
> principal the
> > following is 'do-able' ...
> >
> > Have CMU backup to an FTP server every night and then have another
> > backup server running cmuImport every night on a cronjob to
> duplicate
> > the other server. Then if the primary goes down we could have some
> > sort of heartbeat monitor that switches across to the backup. Yes,
> > users may get some dupe mail, but apart from that everything should
> > carry on before ... or am I being na$B}W(Be here?
> >
> > Colin
> >
>
> Colin,
>
> We've done something like this, except that we really only
> used CMU to back up the configuration of the server. We used
> rsync to copy over all the vsite files and e-mail.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Siddall
>
>
>