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Separate mounted storage for email
Separate mounted storage for email
Hi,
I have setup vestacp in a SSD vps and the problem I have is limited storage for email. Same time I can have another NFS or block storage device with enough capacity mounted in vestacp server. I'd like to know if there's any way to point email storage only to that mounted partition? i.e /mnt/maildata
I have setup vestacp in a SSD vps and the problem I have is limited storage for email. Same time I can have another NFS or block storage device with enough capacity mounted in vestacp server. I'd like to know if there's any way to point email storage only to that mounted partition? i.e /mnt/maildata
Re: Separate mounted storage for email
Hey there,
Yes this is pretty much what I have done, all you need to do is mount another filesystem under /home/admin/mail (if you're always using the admin account to create the mailboxes).
You could mount a NFS share here and then the sky is pretty much the limit as to what you have available on your other server.
Shy away from GlusterFS - as I have tried it as the performance is not great for loads of small files.
I have two servers with SATA storage, formatted with LVM and the mail store volume is setup as DRBD between the two. I use Corosync and Pacemaker to allow the two to communicate with each other (or not ;) , and depending which resources are available, node gets assigned the virtual IP. The mail server just mounts the NFS share on that IP and presto - fail safe mail.
Yes this is pretty much what I have done, all you need to do is mount another filesystem under /home/admin/mail (if you're always using the admin account to create the mailboxes).
You could mount a NFS share here and then the sky is pretty much the limit as to what you have available on your other server.
Shy away from GlusterFS - as I have tried it as the performance is not great for loads of small files.
I have two servers with SATA storage, formatted with LVM and the mail store volume is setup as DRBD between the two. I use Corosync and Pacemaker to allow the two to communicate with each other (or not ;) , and depending which resources are available, node gets assigned the virtual IP. The mail server just mounts the NFS share on that IP and presto - fail safe mail.
Re: Separate mounted storage for email
Mind you, that is fail safe mail from a mail store point of view. I'm really excited to see what VestaCP is going to offer in terms of clustered mail services in the next(ish) update.