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!<br>
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I've just done a full backup of my mail server using mondo - now to do some testing of the restore process!<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 26/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Russell</b> <<a href="mailto:pete@enitech.com.au">pete@enitech.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Colocation Colocation wrote:<br>> So I've just spent the past 3 weeks setting up and tweaking my<br>> Mailscanner installation. I've done every possible tweak and gone<br>> through everything with a magnifying glass and it all looks great.
<br>><br>> So now my thoughts turn to backups. How best should i protect my<br>> investment? I cannot yet justify a second box for redundancy so if all<br>> goes wrong i will need to be able to quickly get my mail server back online.
<br>><br><br>Are you sure you cant afford redundancy? Sounds like that's what you<br>need when you say you want to get your mail server back online quickly.<br><br>Consider a redundant machine even its an old server or a PC (depending
<br>on your demands) and then at least you can receive mail while you repair<br>your main machine if required. Even if the second one is only a backup MX...<br>--<br>MailScanner mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info">
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