Simple Central Storage for HA mail server

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Published on 2011-01-11T19:31:26Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 19:56 UTC
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Hi Everyone,

I will have 2 Postfix servers. One will be a backup of the other.

What is the easiest method to provide central storage to both of these boxes? My infrastructure is very simple: Just a lot of Xen hosts, so there is no SAN or anything.

Each Xen host does have RAID1 though.

I don't mind mounting NFS shares on each of those mail servers, as long as the NFS server wasn't a single point of failure. Is there such a thing as redundant NFS?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

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