<div dir="ltr">If you mean that you want to preserve your existing data, then yes it's possible. Read carefully this section in documentation:<br><br><a href="http://docs.linbit.com/docs/users-guide-8.4/#s-prepare-storage">http://docs.linbit.com/docs/users-guide-8.4/#s-prepare-storage</a> <br><br>...and specifically the section "It is not necessary for this storage area to be empty before you create a DRBD resource from it. In fact it is a common use case to create a two-node cluster from a previously non-redundant single-server system using DRBD (some caveats apply — please refer to DRBD meta data if you are planning to do this)."<br><br>Yannis <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Sandeep <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saswamy@gmail.com" target="_blank">saswamy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br> am new to DRBD and plan to replicate "application data" . <br> wanted to understand - as to how to setup drbd when disks have "existing application data" .<br> <br> drbd document talks about "initial device synchronization" - how can i ensure the synchronization does remove/change data on the source ? <br> <br> Regards<br> <br> Sandeep S<br></div>
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