Re: [vchkpw] Backup Emailserver?

2003-07-26 Thread Jens Gassmann
Hi Nick did you use rsync an small server? What dirs must been synced? We have two servers but they been connected in different datacenters. So one maschine or datacenter fails, the other can backup the first, after the dns-entries are changed. the dns-server was located in an third

Re: [vchkpw] Backup Emailserver?

2003-07-26 Thread Tom Collins
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 07:22 AM, Bill Sappington wrote: I am pretty sure that even if you have two physical servers thats how you would set it up. As to how to get one server to recieve _everything_, unconditionaly, and then every know and then look to see if your primary server was

[vchkpw] Backup Emailserver?

2003-07-25 Thread Jens Gassmann
Hi, how do you backup your emailserver forwards precipitate? Can I backup with rsync simply /home/vpopmail and/var/qmail/ on a second server? About ideas and suggestion I would be pleased. Thanks and greetings Jens Gassmann -- Webmaster http://www.atomix.de

Re: [vchkpw] Backup Emailserver?

2003-07-25 Thread Rudi
- Original Message From: Jens Gassmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Backup Emailserver? Date: 25/07/03 12:06 Hi, how do you backup your emailserver forwards precipitate? Can I backup with rsync simply /home/vpopmail and/var

Re: [vchkpw] Backup Emailserver?

2003-07-25 Thread Nick Harring
Rudi- If the servers are not geographically separated, then you can do this fairly easily by simply placing them behind some sort of load-balancing/fail-over device (Foundry, Cisco Local Director, Linux LVS director) and either load balance them or do active/passive failover. For the vpopmail

Re: [vchkpw] Backup Emailserver?

2003-07-25 Thread Bill Sappington
While I am not sure exactly how this works UUNET provides backup SMTP for me. I have an e-mail server at my site, should my site go down for any particular reason they catch my e-mail, and then when my site is back up all the e-mail starts rolling in. Now I know this is handled partialy