Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
For the mail, I would use remote mounts for the directories that matter, so, if your server goes down, you can script and/or use tools to change the mount dir to another server that is kept rsynced (or another similar tool) with the down server... This is easy job, you just have to somehow monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi Mal, I run a Apache2 webserver and Postfix as per the virtual mailhost guide... For resilience I would like to have two gentoo boxes doing these tasks for load balancing / redundancy - how can this be achieved? Is there a tool that will allow replication of the config files / mysql stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Lucas wrote: mysql: not multi master ready, just redundancy master-slave, try postgres Why not try MaxDB? Is not in portage yet, but see this description: MaxDB is a re-branded and enhanced version of SAP DB, SAP AG's open source database.

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
Sascha Lucas wrote: Just some keywords: easy with postfix: DNS round robin (solution inside DNS Server, nearly all MTAs are aware of this) So DNS round robins between the two mail servers. A new mail comes into server1, how does this mail make it to server2. mysql: not multi master ready,

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Sascha Lucas wrote: mysql: not multi master ready, just redundancy master-slave, try postgres Why not try MaxDB? Is not in portage yet, but see this description: MaxDB is a re-branded and enhanced version of SAP DB, SAP AG's open source database. It is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread Sascha Lucas
easy with postfix: DNS round robin (solution inside DNS Server, nearly all MTAs are aware of this) So DNS round robins between the two mail servers. A new mail comes into server1, how does this mail make it to server2. Yes this is definitely the difficultest part. It must be solved

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kashani wrote: Can you use maxdb as the backend for the mail system? It looks like you can build support for MaxDB into PHP, but Postfix, Courier, Cyrus, etc may be more problematic. It's mysql, actually. It should work easily, I guess. - --

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: kashani wrote: Can you use maxdb as the backend for the mail system? It looks like you can build support for MaxDB into PHP, but Postfix, Courier, Cyrus, etc may be more problematic. It's mysql, actually. It should work easily, I guess. Er... well there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
Sascha Lucas wrote: easy with postfix: DNS round robin (solution inside DNS Server, nearly all MTAs are aware of this) So DNS round robins between the two mail servers. A new mail comes into server1, how does this mail make it to server2. Yes this is definitely the difficultest part. It

[gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-12 Thread Mal Herring
Hi Gentoo-User I run a Apache2 webserver and Postfix as per the virtual mailhost guide... For resilience I would like to have two gentoo boxes doing these tasks for load balancing / redundancy - how can this be achieved? Is there a tool that will allow replication of the config files /