[DRBD-user] Bringing up a failed master

[Gareth Ansell]

Andreas Huck wrote:

> your main server (drbd master) should become slave before
> shutting down. Your cluster manager (heartbeat?) could handle 
> this. It will come up as secondary again and the primary should sync the
> changed blocks. But beware of any (misconfigured) autofailback feature
> of your cluster manager.  
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas

Thanks for the reply, we are only running drbd, not heartbeat, at the 
moment.  Should I set the main server to secondary before I power it 
down manually?

Does drbd restart in the mode it was in previously, or does it always 
start up in a secondary state?

thanks

Gareth


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