unison is working great here
just make it's list smaller I use something like: for i in 'ls' do; unison $i;done And I'm mirroring about 300GB of Maildirs every 2 hours. regards g. On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 11:14 -0700, Entelin wrote: > Hmm.. It seems like the most efficent method would be to have imap / > pop3 make its changes to both at once. Like have the other mounted over > nfs and so you would have two maildir's availible and it would make the > changes to both? smtp can deliver to both places I am pretty sure. > > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 05:23, Thomas Mangin wrote: > > Entelin wrote: > > > > >I have two servers and I need each to have an identical copy of > > >everyones Maildir. What is the best way to accomplish this? both servers > > >will receive mail so they essentially need to merge with > > >each other. some rsync method? coda? unison? something else? not really > > >an area which I know much about... > > > > > > > > Unison may do what you want but when I looked at it a year ago it was > > not stable enough. I had a big NFS server with several 10's of GB of > > mail which caused the program to crash trying to perform the > > synchronisation but the situation may have changed. > > > > Otherwise I am not aware of any easy way to achieve cheap replication > > across multiple servers, AFAIK most distributed file system do not > > include "RAID through networks capacity" but If you are interrested in > > networked file system with replication, you could have a look at > > http://www.lustre.org/ and http://www.pvfs.org/pvfs2/ > > > > You may be able to simulate RAID0 with lustre through the setup of ODB, > > but I never looked into it seriously. > > > > Regards, > > > > Thomas
