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Old 04-30-2008, 04:03 AM   #1
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Thumbs up linux mail server failover


Hello,
I am using exim mail server on RHEL4 linux system.Yesterday mail server got stuckup with some problem and all the mails got blocked, untill i restart the mail server.After facing this problem,i am searching on setting failover plan for mail server and got some idea on fall-back mail server (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2469) using MX record.
Here,the backup server only cache the mails and store in backup server.But i need to set a backup(slave) mail server which should come up and serve as master at the time of failure of master mail server.

Any idea will be greatly appreciated....Thanks in advance...
 
Old 04-30-2008, 04:31 AM   #2
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well the point of MX records and such is that within the server itself there is no concept of "master" or anything. If the server with the lowest MX record fails to accept mail, then the next one would be tried, therefor would become "active" automatically.
 
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Thanks for your reply acid_kewpie.I want to add high value MX record to another mail server which running in another machine(fallback mail server).So that if the mail server goes down the fallback mail server should come up and serve the service automatically.
 
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acid_kewpie, please see this link http://www.akadia.com/services/postfix_mx_backup.html... As said in this link,at failure of primary mail server, mails will be queued up in backup host which has high MX Record value and again handed over to primary host when it comes up. Now my requirement is,while failure occurs on primary mail server, i want that backup host to come up automatically and act as primary and serve..
 
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Well if you have a common storage back end then the two servers would just be identical, again nothing is going to "come up" at all. if you don't have a shared storage but want to have one without a SAN or such, you might like to look at DRBD for block level replication between two servers, but this is really nothing to do with smtp servers at all, and just generic management of an HA filesystem.
 
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You can also use the commercial peerfs for file level replication instead of block replication.
 
  


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