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[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <address@concealed>]

Aron Roberts wrote:

>   Does Sympa include any features to ensure availability of its 
> services in the event of hardware or software failures, or in the 
> event of a need to take down equipment to perform scheduled 
> maintenance tasks?
>
>   Sympa has some support for clustering, but can this in any way be 
> used in a rapid fail-over scenario?
>
>   Also, what other techniques might sites using Sympa be employing to 
> keep a  replacement server at ready?
In order to restart mailing list services after hardware failure you need :
- to restore  sympa expl and etc directory
- to restart SQL backend service (most SQL server includes high 
availability features)
- if you want the service to restart without any lost of messages you 
need some mirroring of spools
- make web, ldap, sendmail and so on availible

Sympa do not provide specific feature for this, but it should not be to 
hard to script some mirroring of requested files.

Regards
Serge Aumont

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