[Dovecot] Dovecot Failover

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 19.04.2013 08:59, schrieb Nikolaos Milas:
> Hello,
> 
> Assuming we have two (low traffic) servers (on different data centers)
> replicated using dsync, what is the best way to automatically direct
> users to the main server when it is up and to the redundant one when the
> main server is down?
> 
> Using DNS? I've seen that DNS-based failover has generally issues (for
> example:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/60553/why-is-dns-failover-not-recommended,
> which is informative although it refers to web servers).
> 
> What is the suggested approach? HAProxy? Heartbeat/Pacemaker?

i run keepalived as loadbalancer/failover but pacemaker etc should work
fine too

> 
> Any advice will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> 



Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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