failover machine?

Hi Christopher,

> I'm probably going to sound pretty ignorant in this
particular message,
> but I'm also fairly new to kolab, so please bear with
me.
>
> I've got a Kolab server that's been running for just
over a year and I
> love it.  I've been doing incremental backups to
another box for a while
> and everything is running smoothly.  If the machine
dies, I'll be able
> to get it back up and running in a pinch.
>
> What I'd like to see, however, is some sort of failover
machine for it,
> that way if the server does die, another machine could
step in while I
> fix the existing box.  Is this possible?
>
> I noticed that in the configuration, you could have
multiple kolab
> hosts.  I've even set up another server running Kolab
as a secondary
> host.  All of the information from the Kolab server I
have in production
> was transferred over to the box I'm playing with, but I
noticed mail
> wasn't copied over as well.
>
> Can two of these servers be set up like I'm thinking,
or am I completely
> off track?  I'd basically like to have a hot standby. 
If so, could
> someone point me to some documentation on this?

configuring Kolab for multiple hosts means that you spread
your users
of several hosts. Still each user will be only present on
one host and
only this machine will hold the users e-mail. So this
basically
load-balancing and not replication which is what you would
like to
have.

Right now there is no integrated solution for automatic
replication of
a Kolab server. You might be able to create your own
solution by
following the backup guide at
ht
tp://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Backups_for_kolab2

Cheers,

Gunnar

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