The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Andrew Hearn <address@concealed>]

On 14/03/12 15:22, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm currently running a pretty basic high-availability configuration for
> our mail server (postfix) and list services (sympa) - they simply run in
> a Xen virtual machine, with mirrored disks across two machines (DRBD),
> and failover of the VM if something goes wrong (pacemaker).
> 
> I'm thinking about migrating the failover host to a 2nd datacenter -
> which makes disk mirroring and VM migration a bit trickier, and I really
> don't like how brittle all that infrastructure is, so I'm starting to
> think about application layer redundancy - two mailservers, two
> instances of sympa,  at remote locations, multiple DNS records, and
> doing something to replicate ques, configurations, databases, archives,
> etc.  The goal is the same:  keep processing traffic if a machine goes
> down, and don't lose any data to machine or disk crashes.
> 
> Which leads to a question:  Are any of you running such a
> configuration?  If so, can you describe what you're doing?  And.. are
> there any good references, presentations, etc. that anybody knows about
> re. building high-availability, scalable, distributed list processing
> infrastructure?

I'm new to Sympa so don't have any answers I'm afraid, but I did wonder
if had any responses to this, as I'd be interested in hearing them too.

Andrew.