Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Sunday 08 January 2012 15:34:29 Maurizio Marini Gmail wrote: > Hello, > > We have two Dell 1425 servers running CentOS 5.4, with RAID5, 3 disks > in each one, > and drbd 8.3 between them. > > We see a disk failure on _all_ 3 disks on the secondary node. > The disks were sent us to new by Dell. > > We could at this point clone the 3 disks of the primary node, using > the controller, > without booting CentOS (not sure if this will work though). > > Then we can put the 3 cloned disks in the secondary node, switch on > the primary first, > then switch on the 2nd but keeping it disconnected. > > We could change the network configuration on the 2nd node before > reconnecting it to the network. > > We're very worried about the drbd partitions metadata being the same > on each node: > does this method have any chance of success, or are we wasting our time? This is essentially a truck-based-replication, so it should be solvable by "just" looking at the relevant part of the docs... Have a nice week, Arnold -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20120108/cf280eb3/attachment.pgp>