On 10/12/2014 12:30 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 12/10/14 02:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 10/12/2014 9:30 AM, Digimer wrote: >>> I can't speak to backuppc, but I am curious how you're managing the >>> resources. Are you using cman + rgmanager or pacemaker? >> >> strictly manually, with drbdadm and such. if the primary backup server >> ever fails, I'll bring up the backup by hand. > > OK. So what's your start-up procedure? How should things start > automatically then and where exactly is backuppc hanging up? Is it > trying to start before DRBD is Primary? Just autostarting the demon with chkconfig on, didn't do anything else special. when I reboot the master, its coming up secondary/secondary, and I manually have to kick it to primary then mount the file system, then start the backuppc service. > >> its the drbd8.3 package from elrepo. > > So 8.3.16? yeah. drbd83-utils-8.3.16-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 > syncer { rate 200M; } >> } it is fairly fast storage, and gigE. I had temporarily tweaked that up to 200M to speed up the verify process, it was set to 50M before, and I just now set it back. > What does 'drbdadm dump' show? That will give a better idea of the > actual setup. I'm interested specifically in the start parameters (ie: > become-primary-on, etc). # /etc/drbd.conf common { syncer { rate 50M; } } # resource main on svfis-sg1.netsys.stsv.seagate.com: not ignored, not stacked resource main { protocol C; on sg1.domain.com { device /dev/drbd0 minor 0; disk /dev/vg_sg1data/lvdata; address ipv4 10.x.x.70:7788; meta-disk internal; } on sg2.domain.com { device /dev/drbd0 minor 0; disk /dev/vg_sg2data/lvcopy; address ipv4 10.x.x.71:7788; meta-disk internal; } disk { on-io-error detach; } syncer { verify-alg crc32c; } startup { wfc-timeout 0; degr-wfc-timeout 120; } } -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast