From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 01:22:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D66F16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:22:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net (adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.76.19.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC5843D1D for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:22:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [192.168.2.49] (adsl-65-42-187-207.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [65.42.187.207]) (authenticated bits=0)ESMTP id i5M1Mtwg056735; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:22:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) In-Reply-To: <20040621203245.1f0e7444.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621214348.GB63857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040621175626.3e762448.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <40D76DA3.9090809@mac.com> <20040621203245.1f0e7444.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lucas Holt Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:22:34 -0400 To: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.72, clamav-milter version 0.72 on adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the best possible email failover solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:22:45 -0000 Keep in mind that storing mail in a RDBMS as a backup requires an efficient method to restore mail into your mail server's format. Would it be possible to have a second mail server internal to your network that would receive copies of the mail from the primary mail server to store them as a backup? This would be closer to real time and for the most part would beat the 30 minute interval to do an rsync. In addition, if the system proved reliable you could rsync the secondary at night and not have the primary down at all. Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)