[Kolab-devel] Cyrus Murder and kolab

[Martin Konold]

Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 08:43 schrieb Michael Harlaut:

Hi Michael,

> >IMHO the kolab multi-location support provides the same while allowing to
> >fully control which server is used for a specific user.
>
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't see how the kolab multi-location function
> can help in providing a failover capability.

Cyrus murder does also not provied any failover capability beyond what kolab 
multi-location offers.

> LDAP and configuration files are well replicated, but the mailboxes
> content are not.

No, mailbox contents are intentionally not replicated as this would hurt 
network performance in most cases. 

High availability is imho best achieved using a shared storage cluster based 
on something like Heartbeat.

Regards,
-- martin

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