Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2005-04-18 17:38:09 +0500
\ Umair Siddiqi:
> Is it possible to have second secondary server along with regular
> primary/secondary configuration ?
>
> Actually what we would like to have a standard configuration with two
> servers Primary/Secondary with HA failover. In addition to that we would
> like to have a third server at remote site with only /drbd0 mirroring
> without any failover.
>
> Please let me know if this is possible.
with current out of the box drbd, no.
we have some unfinished bits and pieces though,
and want to support this setup in 0.8, or maybe in a
drbd-0.8-you-pay-us-for-usage-of-special-features version...
sorry, no timeline, yet.
what you can do is
* drbd on top of LVM,
every now and then LVM snapshot on current secondary,
mount snapshot, rsync to off-site backup.
* drbd on top of drbd
current-local-primary <-> remote-allways-secondary
/ \
local-A <-> local-B
where the stacked local drbd is a cluster resource, which is
always stacked on top of the current local primary.
its a tricky setup, at least when something went wrong,
so think about a good emergency plan, and write every single step
down. then exercise it twice :)
Lars Ellenberg
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