[DRBD-user] Help: Replacing A Dead Node

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Jul 29 11:06:16 CEST 2008

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:37:37PM -0700, Mike Sweetser - Adhost wrote:
> Just wanted to follow up and say that everything went just fine!  I
> didn't even have to do anything regarding the adjustments - the two
> nodes started resyncing by themselves once I started up DRBD on the new
> node.
> 
> The only issue was that the load of resyncing the five devices was too
> much to do at once (the DRBD setup supports a full hosting environment
> of Apache and MySQL) so I had to cut off some of the resyncs and do them
> one by one, but that'll be just fine.

man drbd.conf
/after

e.g.
resource r0 {
	....
	syncer { rate 30M; }
}
resource r1 {
	....
	syncer { rate 30M; after r0; }
}

see also:
man drbdadm
/pause-sync
/resume-sync

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