Rsync could be difficult as it's only one way (uni-directional).
Unison might do the trick though (along with heartbeat).
I don't know how Unison compares with DRBD.

Helmut Fritz wrote:
> An rsync setup may also work...with heartbeat. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micah Abrams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] qmt replication
> 
> 
> I have a similar setup using drbd and heartbeat between two toaster boxes.
> It does not give you any load sharing capability (as its purely an
> active/passive setup), but does provide you with the redundancy you're
> looking for.
> 
> Micah
> 
> On 4/6/08 12:14 PM, "Eric Shubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> I don't think you'll get much benefit from 2 toasters w/out a storage 
>> server. I get a headache just thinking about how that would work.
>>
>> Short of that, I'd be sure to run raid (software raid works well, you 
>> don't need a raid card) to protect against disk failure. That's by far 
>> the most likely point of failure (other than a power outage).
>>
>> Bogdan Peptine wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to have fail over and load balance but i don't to use a 
>>> storage server.
>>> If one of the mailservers is going down the ather one to server his job.
>>> I want to use only those two server without any ather storage.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Shubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:28 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] qmt replication
>>>
>>>
>>>> Bogdan Peptine wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I have to servers and i want to have QMT replication so both 
>>>>> servers to have the same emails allways.
>>>>> I will have both servers to be registered as mx in the dns zone 
>>>>> with 10/20 priority.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can do this with QMT?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>> This is typically done with a common storage server backend. The 
>>>> configuration for such a setup is not trivial.
>>>>
>>>> What are you trying to accomplish?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>>>


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

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