> Hello, > > I see that there was no answer/advice here. > > Does it mean that I should probably make a mirror raid (raid1) for " > partition-default"? I guess yes. If you have a third disk, you could do the rsync stuff on it, but raid1 is a must, isn't it? Simon > > Best Regards, > Leon > > -----Original Message----- > From: info-cyrus-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:info-cyrus-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leon > Kolchinsky > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 12:19 PM > To: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Advice on data partition > > Hello All, > > My "partition-default: /var/spool/imap" was mounted on RAID5 ACCUSYS > hardware raid. > It's very untrusted raid solution IMHO. > > A couple of days ago one of the disks on this raid died and for some > reason this freezed my system completely. > > I've copied the /var/spool/imap data to my system disk. > Reconstructed all mailboxes "/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -rf user/*" > and now mail-server seems to run normally. > > Instead of this faulty raid, I've added 2 separate disks (each of 160GB). > > My question is: > > Should I configure these 2 disks in Raid1 (Mirror) and mount it as > "/var/spool/imap" and move all mailboxes to it? > > Or may be there is a better solution? May be to use one disk as > "/var/spool/imap" and other for some kind of replication? > So in case of disaster it won't be needed to shut down the server, replace > faulty disk and rebuild the raid, but only to switch to another disk? > > > Any thoughts/suggestions/ideas and howto's are welcome. > > > Best Regards, > Leon Kolchinsky > > > > ---- > 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 > ---- > 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 > ---- 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
