On 08 Oct 08, at 1119, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 09:24:49 +0100, "Ian G Batten" <ian.batten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > said: >> What's the testing status of the SQL backend for cyrusdb? I'll >> switch batten.eu.org over to it, but that only has a dozen or so >> users; ftel.co.uk's 1000+ users might be a little tenser. I'm keen >> to >> switch as the ability to replicate cyrusdb as well as replicating the >> entire mailsystem is attractive. > > You are aware that cyrus replication replicates DB records for all the > important things as well, aren't you? Yes, of course. It's just that having, many years ago, experienced the loss of a cyrusdb, being able to keep up-to-date copies of it which I can use without the nuclear option of failing over to my off- site replica is a good thing. So I will shortly have my whole Cyrus instance (~60K mailboxes, ~1000 users, ~4TB of mail) replicated via GigE to a remote site. But if my local instance went south just because Cyrus DB had gone, being able to simply switch cyrusdb to a MySQL/PostgresQL replica while keeping mail service on the master is preferable to doing a full off-site failover. ian ---- 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
