On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:02:29 -0500 Jim Levie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For a mail system, a Murder with multiple Front End systems and a bunch > of Back End systems is more resilient. Yes, if a Back End fails some > users will be without mail for a bit. That can be as short as a few > minutes if INBOX recovery from backup isn't considered since you can > easily create those users INBOX's on a different Back End. And even > doing a full restore of a Back End can be kept down to a few hours by > limiting the storage on a Back End to say 60Gb or so. Yup, exactly that is my next HA plan. It simplifies just about everything and we get better uptime as a side effect. Amazing, eh? :) -- Jure Peèar --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
