Just my 2 Cents.. IF you use MySQL for you're your vpopmail backend It will save you on stuff you have to rsync If you do database replication.
-John > -----Original Message----- > From: Christophe Le Guern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:45 AM > To: Alex V. Koval > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [toaster] Replicating mail server > > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:35:44 +0200 (EET) > "Alex V. Koval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Christophe Le Guern wrote: > > > > > for replicate you can use rsync > > > but I will use a NFS server instead > > > > Nice info, I also need the failsafe server. NFS is big > security hole, > > so I prefer Rsync. > yes, but it's not for the same usage, nfs share all your > informations. in your case, you second machine is not in use > all the time > > > > > The question is: will there be any problem to QMail to > start rsynced > > server? For example if I rsync the trees: > > > > /var/qmail > > > > and > > > > /home/vpopmail > > > > will this be the complete system backup, so in case of any > problems I > > can start the hot-backup server? > you have to make a fresh qmail/vpopmail installation and > rsync /var/qmail/control, /var/qmail/users and > /home/vpopmail/domains I think it's ok > > christophe > > > > >
