Replication looks to be the solution. Surprisingly I hadn't discovered it on my own. Many thanks to everyone for pointing it out!
However, while setting it up, I noticed a really weird thing. When authentication fails on the master-initiated master->slave connection, master will block connections from all clients! That's a seriously weird design choice. Does the same thing happen when the slave goes down? For example, if I reboot the slave, is the master mail server down for everyone while the slave reboots? I have not dared to experiment as when authentication failed and the Cyrus master server stopped letting clients connect, everyone in the office started shouting within seconds. Best, Elver elver.l...@gmail.com +372 5661 6933 http://elver.wordpress.com/ skype: elver.loho On 16 June 2010 12:10, Patrick Boutilier <bouti...@ednet.ns.ca> wrote: > On 06/16/2010 06:08 AM, Elver Loho wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking to keep a live or near-live backup of our Cyrus system >> (currently serving about 10 people with a fairly high volume of email) >> and the murder system seems like an overkill for such a simple thing. >> What other options do I have? >> >> For MySQL I've set up master-slave replication. All the write queries >> are replicated to the slave in near-real-time. It's good enough for >> us. If the main server ever catches fire, we can promote the slave to >> master and have an almost-up-to-the-second copy of things going on. >> For PostgreSQL, I've set up a cronjob to dump the DB off the main >> server every six hours and load it into the backup server. It's as >> real-time as we need it. >> Many folders that keep changing on the main server are rsynced over to >> the backup server once a day. >> >> What can I do with Cyrus that would be similar, but where I wouldn't >> have to deploy scary murder? I don't want to access the Cyrus server >> on the backup server, but I would like the ability to easily turn it >> on after the main server fails and lose, at most, half an hour's worth >> of emails. > > Replication? > > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install-replication.html > > > >> >> Best, >> Elver >> >> elver.l...@gmail.com >> +372 5661 6933 >> http://elver.wordpress.com/ >> skype: elver.loho >> ---- >> Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ >> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki >> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
