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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 10, 2016, at 2:06 PM, Remco Barendse <<a href="mailto:mailscanner@barendse.to" class="">mailscanner@barendse.to</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Thanks Alex!<br class=""><br class="">The choice for CPU/MEM/storage is easy when it's a virtual machine, can move around as needed. Was curious what the recommended disk size is for a MailScanner machine and what people do with archive copies of mail/spam. Mount an NFS or SMB share to store that or something else?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks :)<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">It really depends on context. Space, CPU and I/O issues can vary greatly from site to site.<br class="">If you want to upgrade, look into your biggest bottlenecks first. Sometimes it’s RAM, sometimes it’s disk I/O (where SSD’s would be great), sometimes it’s CPU<br class="">power.<br class="">In my case I usually go for SSD’s for storing the OS, programs, and mail - and regular hard drives for things like quarantines and such, with scripts moving older<br class="">stuff with various protocols (NFS, rsync, FTP) over to long-term storage to make space when needed.<br class="">Oh, and it’s not “virii”. Virus is a “mass noun”, like “rice”. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Virus" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Virus</a><br class="">[alexneuman.format_png.resize_120x.png#logo] <br class="">Alex Neuman van der Hans Producer/Host, Vida Digital<br class="">+1 (440) 253-9789 | +507 6781-9505 | Panama |<a href="mailto:alex@vidadigital.com.pa" class="">alex@vidadigital.com.pa</a> | <a href="http://vidadigital.com.pa/" class="">http://vidadigital.com.pa/</a> |Skype: alexneuman <br class="">[facebook.png] [linkedin.png] [twitter.png] [pinterest.png] [youtube.png] [instagram.png] [wordpress.png] [amazon.png] [XT9yavvmRJaZZvINZFTQ_skype.png]<br class=""> [wEM3vsigQhq5yev6iwEV_whatsapp.png]<br class=""><br class=""> On Aug 2, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Remco Barendse <<a href="mailto:mailscanner@barendse.to" class="">mailscanner@barendse.to</a>> wrote:<br class="">Hi list!<br class="">I would like to upgrade the servers that are running MailScanner.<br class="">What is the best approach on storage? It will be virtual machines (which i guess is what a lot of people are doing now), how to approach the storage issue,<br class="">what would be the best approach / design? What size for the MailScanner root partition etc. ?<br class="">I have to keep verbatim copies of anything that goes in or out of the mail servers, i keep the qf/df pairs from sendmail.<br class="">I read some people seeing their quarantine getting filled with 7 Gb of virii just in one day, what would be recommended storage sizes and how to deal with<br class="">quarantine / archive folders? If it wise or recommended to mount an external volume at /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine and<br class="">/var/spool/MailScanner/archived or is there a better way ?<br class="">If I have several MailScanner servers, is it OK to keep all spam/archived copies in one and the same mount ?<br class="">Will CentOS 7 work flawlessly? Anyone using standard cloud images?<br class="">Thanks for any tips / suggestions :>)<br class="">--<br class="">MailScanner mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info" class="">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a><br class="">http://lists.mailscanner.info/listinfo/mailscanner<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">MailScanner mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info" class="">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a><br class="">http://lists.mailscanner.info/listinfo/mailscanner<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>