>>You "simply" need to find the cash for two servers, a full-mesh FC or
You could get funky and build two imail servers and have them use a SAMBA share on a linux box for the data. Andrew P. Kaplan Network Administrator CyberShore, Inc. http://www.cshore.com "Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ]" > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sanford > Whiteman > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:45 PM > To: Matthew Brandes > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Email Server Contingency Plan > > > Matthew, > > Imail works nicely with Microsoft clusters, as well as with NSI > Double-Take and Legato/Vinca. I have set it up with the former--it's > just a Generic Service to MSCS. > > You "simply" need to find the cash for two servers, a full-mesh FC or > SCSI setup, redundant switches, and redundant uplinks from the colo. > That should just about take care of it. You would not lose any data in > the event of a single component failure, as everything is replicated. > > > 5) If box 1 goes down for a bit... and I switch to box 2.... > then get box 1 > > back up and running. Can I get email that is sitting on box 2 > over to box > > 1? Easily? :-) > > This kind of orphaned-data situation won't happen with a clustered > environment. It's a major bear with distributed, MX-based redundancy. > Needless to say, though, adding a secondary active MX is much cheaper > than the clustering hardware and software increment. > > > I'm being told the 4-6 hours for the mail server to be down is the max > > during business hours. > > Whatever suits their fancy. If you just had a warm-spare (with all the > accounts replicated, but none of the mailboxes), that could be up in a > jiffy for new mail, but you could have orphaned data which would take > way more than 6 hours to get back in place, if ever. So it depends on > what "up" and "down" mean! > > Sandy > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/02 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/02 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
