Francisco Reyes spake the following on 4/28/2007 9:42 AM: > Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns > I am trying to address where I work. > > Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database? > > NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are > extremely expensive. > > I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and > available for the OS we use (FreeBSD). > > I recall at one point, many months back, Timo mentioned that perhaps > storing the messages in the database was a possibility for the future. > Any additional thoughts on this? If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync. And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of promise.
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