[DRBD-user] setting up a single node DRBD 8.9 setup

Emmanuel Florac eflorac at intellique.com
Thu Jul 7 19:27:26 CEST 2016

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Le Tue, 5 Jul 2016 13:00:34 +0200
Emmanuel Florac <eflorac at intellique.com> écrivait:

> Hi everyone,
> I need to migrate an existing server to DRBD by adding another
> machine. Therefore I need to create a "single node" drbd cluster on
> the new system, migrate all existing data to the "cluster", then add
> the old server as a "slave" to the cluster.
> 
> I've set up the cluster on the new machine, however, how to proceed? I
> can't even start the drbd service as the other "node" doesn't even
> exist yet...
> 


OK replying to myself so that it may help someone else someday:

I just needed to run

drbdadm up res0
drbdadm primary res0 --force

And that's it.


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