On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:44 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jerry Amundson writes: > > This way, if the Internet goes down at either site, only Internet > > e-mail at that site is affected, whereas, currently, Internet > > downtime creates many problems (of course). > > > > Crazy? Perhaps, but rsync'ing shouldn't cause any problems because > > of the unique file names, and it's --delete option should preserve > > the Maildir structure across to the "mirror" server, right? Our > > main office only has about 100 employee's, so the T1 bandwidth > > should suffice... > > If one of the lines goes down and everyone switches over to using the > rsync-ed mailboxes on the other server, then when service is restored > the first rsync will obliterate any changes made to the rsync-ed > copies of the mailboxes.
I'll have to do something creative to not allow that to happen, maybe something with rsync's --include to have the server's only mirror what it's delivered (as the hostname is in the filename...). I'll sort that out later... > Or, it's possible that a fractional T1 between the two offices may be > cheaper than a pair of backup low-bandwidth circuits. Except that a > backhoe incident in the immediate neighborhood will likely take out > both circuits. I should clarify - it's been mandated that I put a server in the remote location... or else we move to Exchange. Folks in the remote office, about 25 users all using IMAP via Outlook 2000, were seeing intermitent response degradation, the cause of which I have been unable to pinpoint. The frustration level has gotten pretty high there, so it has been decided they get their own server. jerry ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
