On 2016-06-21 07:17, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
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.
FC or iSCSI as storage.
and always have a lvm layer between your HW and the FS. that way you can easily attach more disk to the stripe set and grow your storage that way.
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