Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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 -- Gareth Ansell UNIX Team Infrastructure Computing Services Coventry University Tel: 024 7688 8641