On 5/4/2016 5:02 AM, Steven Ford wrote: > You could also use pacemaker to manage promoting the drbd device and > mounting it with a dead master role as a dependency. Are you using anything > to automatically promote the send slave already? I'm not using anything, this is a disaster recovery sort of scenario, the master is a backup server (backuppc), and the slave is an offsite backup of the backups. if the master fails, the plan was to manually bring the slave up after manually fencing the master. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz