[DRBD-user] [drbd] Rsync secondary after failure

Leroy van Logchem leroy.vanlogchem at wldelft.nl
Thu May 12 14:44:14 CEST 2005

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


> Secondary disk is empty while primary is full but status is 
> Consistent, the need to sync in /var/log/messages is 0KB
>
> What is the correct recovery procedure ? Do I have to rebuilt the both 
> hard drive from scratch, is there some meta data to earase somewhere 
> (couldn't find where).

Make sure the partitions are of the same dimensions. You could use 
sfdisk -d on both sides and compare the size= fields. The command 
"drbdadm invalidate_remote" should trigger a full-sync when issued on 
the primary. I'am rather new to drbd too but willing to help :)

--Leroy




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