Rob Mueller wrote: >> Disagree. I am replicating one server to two and have been doing it >> for quite >> a while with cyrus 2.3. > > Can you explain how you're doing this? If you're just running multiple > sync_clients with different config files that point to different replica > servers, then what you've got is broken because each sync_client will be > randomly grabbing different log files, so each replica will be only > getting half the required updates and will at any moment be randomly out > of sync with the master. > > The only way you can reliably make this work is. > > 1. Write a process that that like sync_client, regularly grabs and > atomically rotates the log files in the conf/log directory > 2. That process then either: > a) puts two copies of the log file in separate directories, and you have > two separate sync_client processes running in rolling mode picking up > the files in those directories, each sync_client with a different config > file pointing to the two different replica servers > b) it runs a sync_client -f on the file twice, but with separate config > filess to each of the two different replica servers Could you do it then with sync_client -S -u instead of -r to one of the relicas? ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
