Mailstore on NFS.

[Luca Villani]

Alle 18:28, venerdì 11 giugno 2004, Paul Gargan ha scritto:


First, I'm afraid my english is very *very* poor, I'm sorry...



> We want to guard against the possibility of the server dying. The idea
> is that we have the spool on the NetApp, shared via NFS, and mounted by
> the Kolab server. If the machine running Kolab dies, we simply drop in a
> new one and point it at the network share. That's the theory, anyway.
> Having the spool on the NetApp also makes backup easier.

If you have two server with enough disk space, there is another solution: you 
can do a raid1 on NBD:

	http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3778

If primary server crash, you can simply start services on backup server.




Disclaimer: I *never* test this solution, I'm planning tests on this platform 
during first July week.




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