Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Simon Matter
> Torsten Schlabach wrote: >> > The config you would need is to use drbd to mirror the data >> > directories >> >> Is this officially supported / endorsed? > Not that I know of but someone else may have a better idea than me >> I learned that Cyrus IMAPd (for whatever reason) is quite picky on >> f

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Jack Stone
>> Search for rolling replication. Though I failed to get it working >> >> reliably ... The only problem with rolling replication is that if you fail over to the replica and mail gets delivered to it. When you bring the master back up unless you are carefull (i.e. switch which is master and which r

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Jack Stone
Torsten Schlabach wrote: > > The config you would need is to use drbd to mirror the data > > directories > > Is this officially supported / endorsed? Not that I know of but someone else may have a better idea than me > I learned that Cyrus IMAPd (for whatever reason) is quite picky on > filesystems

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Torsten Schlabach
> The config you would need is to use drbd to mirror the data > directories Is this officially supported / endorsed? I learned that Cyrus IMAPd (for whatever reason) is quite picky on filesystems. From the FAQ: --- SNIP --- # Using NFS We don't recommend it. If you want to do it, it may poss

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Search for rolling replication. Though I failed to get it working reliably ... Do you mean this stuff here: http://nfs-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/cyrus/replication.html Regards, Torsten Ulrich Spoerlein schrieb: Torsten Schlabach wrote: you are searching for heartbeat and drbd But this w

Re: Maximum amount of mailboxes

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Tue, 15 May 2007, ledouxe wrote: Hi, A client of mine has come upon what seems to be the limit of mailboxes for one letter. They use student numbers for mailbox names. When a mailbox is numerical, Cyrus puts the mailboxes under the letter "q" in /var/spool/imap (ex: /var/spool/imap/q/user/

Re: creating group., what does it really mean

2007-05-15 Thread Jack Stone
Toschi Pietro wrote: > > > > localhost.localdomain> cm group/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > that resulted OK, and mailbox is listed with lm. > > > > localhost.localdomain> lam group/[EMAIL PROTECTED] returns: > > anyone lrs (isn't it strange? I didn't issue any sam command on that > > mailbox) > > > > Now

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Jack Stone
>you are searching for heartbeat and drbd >> >> But this will "just" provide the HA filesystem, won't it? >> >> Isn't there a technology available in Cyrus IMAPd which will replicate >> changes to a mailbox to two different servers? >> Firstly, hello to the list. drbd is a file system replicatio

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Torsten Schlabach wrote: > > you are searching for heartbeat and drbd > > But this will "just" provide the HA filesystem, won't it? > > Isn't there a technology available in Cyrus IMAPd which will replicate > changes to a mailbox > to two different servers? Search for rolling replication. Thou

Re: Cyrus 'cluster' general upgrade strategy?

2007-05-15 Thread Wesley Craig
You'll need to upgrade primary and replica backends together for a 2.3.7 to 2.3.8 upgrade. Other than that, you can upgrade just one backend pair in a 2.3.7 cluster, no problem. Once you have confidence in the correctness of 2.3.8, upgrade the rest of the backends. It's also pretty commo

Maximum amount of mailboxes

2007-05-15 Thread ledouxe
Hi, A client of mine has come upon what seems to be the limit of mailboxes for one letter. They use student numbers for mailbox names. When a mailbox is numerical, Cyrus puts the mailboxes under the letter "q" in /var/spool/imap (ex: /var/spool/imap/q/user/12345/ ) My client can't create any mo

Cyrus 'cluster' general upgrade strategy?

2007-05-15 Thread Nik Conwell
For those with medium to large scale murders or other glued together clusters of cyrus servers, what's the general strategy for upgrading? Do you take downtime for the entire cluster and upgrade, or do you roll through upgrades of the parts? The latter would be prudent, except that I discov

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Torsten Schlabach
> you are searching for heartbeat and drbd But this will "just" provide the HA filesystem, won't it? Isn't there a technology available in Cyrus IMAPd which will replicate changes to a mailbox to two different servers? Michael Grundmann schrieb: Torsten Schlabach schrieb: Does anyone have a

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Michael Grundmann
Torsten Schlabach schrieb: Does anyone have a redundant IMAP config up and running where failure of a mailbox server would not mean any service disruption? It might be worth documenting such a setup in the Cyrus Wiki. you are searching for heartbeat and drbd -- Gruß Michael ...der auch imm

Re: synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Hi Phillipe! Your question is very valid in the first place; a lot of people are looking for that scenario. (Including one of the sites which I work on right now.) I think you will have to become clear of some things: 1. An MX is a Mail eXchanger, i.e. Exim, Postfix or the like. The MX does not

synchronization/backup mx

2007-05-15 Thread Philippe Trolliet
hi, i´m looking for a strategy to synchronize the primary mailserver to a backup/fallback server. i´ve read an article about backup strategy in the cyrus wiki. but is there any other way to do this? e.g. with an internal component of cyrus? scenario: a mail is stored in inbox on primary server. the

creating group., what does it really mean

2007-05-15 Thread Toschi Pietro
Hi all I'm experimenting with cyrus 2.2.12 configured to support UNIX namespaces and virtual domains. Using cyradm as administrative user I issued: localhost.localdomain> cm group/[EMAIL PROTECTED] that resulted OK, and mailbox is listed with lm. localhost.localdomain> lam group/[EMAIL PROTECTE

presering read/seen status - migrating from 2.1.5 to 2.3.3

2007-05-15 Thread Dickson Law
Hi All we are planning a migration from 2.15 to 2.3.3 to a new box. Synced over /var/imap and and ran the conversion for .seen files as suggested in install-upgrade using cvt_cyrusdb. But all the mail in the inbox on the new servers are reset to unread. Is there anything else I need to do?