OT : Disaster recovery?

[Colocation Colocation]

Of course you are right! I do have a secondary MX setup to catch all the
mail if the primary goes down. That still leaves me having to reinstall the
primary as soon as possible!

I've just done a full backup of my mail server using mondo - now to do some
testing of the restore process!


On 26/10/06, Peter Russell <pete at enitech.com.au> wrote:
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> Colocation Colocation wrote:
> > So I've just spent the past 3 weeks setting up and tweaking my
> > Mailscanner installation. I've done every possible tweak and gone
> > through everything with a magnifying glass and it all looks great.
> >
> > So now my thoughts turn to backups. How best should i protect my
> > investment? I cannot yet justify a second box for redundancy so if all
> > goes wrong i will need to be able to quickly get my mail server back
> online.
> >
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> Are you sure you cant afford redundancy? Sounds like that's what you
> need when you say you want to get your mail server back online quickly.
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> Consider a redundant machine even its an old server or a PC (depending
> on your demands) and then at least you can receive mail while you repair
> your main machine if required. Even if the second one is only a backup
> MX...
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