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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: warrenm on February 20, 2007, 10:02:43 PM

Title: SME Server acting as Disaster Recovery email server
Post by: warrenm on February 20, 2007, 10:02:43 PM

Hello,
I am running Exchange 2003  :oops:  and need to provide disaster recovery for a number of network services including email.

Our main office is in the UK and we have an office in Munich, Germany which I was hoping would make my DR site.  My main problem is how do I get email to failover from the UK exchange server to the Disaster Recovery server in Munich?

I could add a secondary MX record pointing to the SME server which would provide automatic failover (I think) but the main problem is how do I get all the users email on to the SME server and keep it up to date with email from the Exchange Server?

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer


Warren

Title: SME Server acting as Disaster Recovery email server
Post by: steever on February 21, 2007, 11:28:56 AM

Search for MX Backup here.  You can configure SME Server as an MX backup.  Basically you make the SME Server the top priority mail server for your domain.  Mail goes to SME Server which knows to pass it on to your  :oops: Exchange Server.  It passes it on immediately UNLESS there's a problem with your Exchange.  In which case it holds on to the mail until such time that it can deliver. http://schirrms.net/files/smeserver-mxbackup-0.1.0-02.noarch.rpm
Notes are here: http://schirrms.net/sme/MXBackup.php

Title: SME Server acting as Disaster Recovery email server
Post by: warrenm on February 21, 2007, 12:19:01 PM

Thanks for you help.  This solution looks perfect.  During an outage on the exchange server (which has been known to happen :evil: ) how would users in the UK view their email from the SME server in Germany?


Thanks again for your help.  It really is appreciated.