Ken Murchison wrote:

>
>Well,  you'd also have to sync /var/imap so you'd keep the mailbox db,
>seen state, subscriptions and quotas in sync.  You'd probably have to
>quiesce Cyrus so that no mail gets delivered, read, moved, etc.
>
>You could use rsync to do the replication or I believe that there are
>some network RAID1 solutions out there.
>
>If I was going to do this myself, I'd get myself a dual ported FC RAID5
>box, and setup a SAN with my 2 servers both talking the RAID5.  You'd
>need some SAN software to share the filesystem.  Something like SGI's
>CXFS *should* work nicely.
>
>Ken
>
See also http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org for a means to get improved 
performance as well as reliability. Haven't tried it with Cyrus, but it 
should work. If you're going to set up a SAN-type environment you might 
as well use a network redirector as well to keep both servers working.

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