OT: RE: [MAILSCANNER] spam: Re: Mail Server problems

[Spicer, Kevin (MBLEA it)]

>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Dave Goodrich

>When I build my new mail servers a few weeks ago, I built one up and
tested it. When it worked the way I wanted I just >logged into the other
machines, partitioned and formatted the drives like I wanted. Then I
used dump over ssh to move 
>the working server into the next server, and the next, and so on. I was
installing on FreeBSD 5.2.1 boxes.

>Fast, simple, secure, and free.

I've done similar things using ufsdump on solaris and occaisionally tar
(although with data only I think).

Of course if you're lucky enough to have mirrored hot swap disks in your
servers the easiest way is just to break the mirror, pop in a new disk
and wait for it to sync, voila!



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