Storage upgrade maildir suggestions?

[Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator]

Hi,

we start to run out of diskspace soon as our users start to keep mails
for longer time periods. That's fine, but space consuming.

The maildirs are about 1 TB in total, and not long ago we enabled zlib
which is very nice.

Now I have some thoughts about the next steps:

a) Migrating the whole system to a new server with more storage?

b) Install a virtual server for the mailsystem and an extra storage
system may be NFS?

c) Stay with the current server and move all mails to a bigger NFS storage.

The last option c) would be the most easy one for me as I currently have
NFS space.

Any thoughts? Hints regarding the NFS storage? Pros Cons?

I have seen the dovecot wiki on NFS already and for now we will stay
with one single dovecot server.


    Thanks and regards . Götz



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