I'm running Cyrus 2.3.9 on a small server (less than 10 accounts). I'm thinking of using replication to put a second copy of the mail store on a remote server. The twist is that I'm planning to configure the remote replica to put its Cyrus spool in a file system that is encrypted (using "truecrypt"). Since the spool directory will need to be mounted by hand (with a pass phrase typed in manually by me), I need to deal with the possibility that Cyrus might be running but the spool directory is missing (e.g., if the server has just rebooted and I haven't had a chance to log in and mount the encrypted file system yet). My question is, will Cyrus's replication work properly in an environment like this? Obviously, nothing can get stored on the replica server if the spool directory is down, but if the master tries (unsuccessfully) to synchronize new messages while the replica's spool directory is offline, will everything eventually end up clean after the file system has been mounted on the replica? Or is there a danger of activity on the master being lost? As best I can tell, this is NOT the same as a situation in which the replica server is completely down. In my scenario, the replica server will be running, and the Cyrus application will be running, but the spool directory will be missing. Is there anything in particular (configuration options, messy kludges, etc.) that I need to do in a setup like this in order for replication to work? -- Rich Wales === Palo Alto, CA, USA === richw@xxxxxxxxx http://www.richw.org === http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, theory and practice are identical -- whereas in practice, they aren't." ---- 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
