Re: File system mirroring for SMTP/POP Servers

[Mario Lopez <mario@lar3d.com>]

Thanks James, I am taking a look at Unison a File Syncronizer, DRDB I think 
is more oriented towards machines in the same lan, the machines I am trying 
to replicate are on different networks, although with high band width it is 
not reasonable to replicate hard disk. :)

Thanks any way :).

> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:22 +0200, Mario Lopez wrote:
> > I am seeking for a solution for having several SMTP/POP servers on
> > different network locations, the problem is the following, we actually 
> have
> > one SMTP/POP server with MX backup to another server, ok this solution is
> > ok for some scenarios but when the main SMTP/POP server goes down (it does
> > not happen to much fortunately) the email is not lost but no one can 
> access
> > they email, and this tends to annoy people, is there any possibilty of
> > having some kind of mirrored file system over the network so when one of
> > the servers goes down the DNS would point them to the other IP (using the
> > round robin dns feature or whatever) and people could download email?.
>
> You might like to consider DRBD: http://www.drbd.org/
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