[DRBD-user] Switching from internal to external meta-disk

Dan Barker dbarker at visioncomm.net
Wed Jul 11 15:45:32 CEST 2012

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


And further, the FIRST step in any maintenance should be is "cat
/proc/drbd". You would have seen which node had the current data.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com
[mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Felix Frank
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:33 AM
To: Jean-Baptiste
Cc: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Switching from internal to external meta-disk

Hi,

On 07/10/2012 06:59 PM, Jean-Baptiste wrote:
>  9. Doing drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary <RES> (from the
>     primary node)
> 10. Let synchronize process ending
> 11. Done
> 
> At this step everything is fine, my SGBD was restarted without any 
> warning, nothing seems to go wrong.
> But ... I was lost 11 days of data in my SGBD.

we've seen similar effects on several occasions on this list. So far, it has
always (iirc) been a case of "diskless primary".

Have you retained logs from 11 days ago? I'd expect you to find a note
around that time stating that your primary detached its backing device.

*If* this assumption is correct, here's what's happened then: You primary
happily kept writing data, but it never reached its local HDD.
Instead, all changes were written to the secondary's disk only. When you did
your changes and overwrote the data of the secondary, you killed your data.

Bottom line is, it's crucial to be mindful of the health state of your
resources. Ideally, monitoring should report whenever your disks are not
UpToDate/UpToDate, among other possible problems.

HTH,
Felix
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