[Pacemaker] best Way to build a 2 Node Cluster with cold Standby ?

[Ken Gaillot]

On 12/12/2014 03:22 AM, Hauke Bruno Wollentin wrote:
> Hi Hauke,
>
> personally I won't use DRBD for a case like that because of the _missing_
> replication here.
>
> Imho your idea will work, but it would be easier to manage to use some kind of
> file synchronisation like rsync, unison etc. when the cold standby node comes
> up.

Agreed. I would say that cold standby isn't high-availability, so I 
don't think any HA software would be the right tool for the job.

If you also (separately) do a full backup of the main server for data 
backup purposes, more frequently than every two weeks, I would recommend 
rsync'ing the standby server from the backups. That gives you a more 
recent copy of the data in case you have to failover when the main 
server has completely died, and it keeps the additional sync traffic off 
the production server.

-- Ken Gaillot

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> original message
> timestamp: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 09:17:31 PM
> from: Hauke Homburg <hhomburg at w3-creative.de>
> to: pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
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> subject: [Pacemaker] best Way to build a 2 Node Cluster with cold Standby ?
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>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to build a 2 Node KVM Cluster with the folling Features:
>>
>> 1 Node ist the Primary Node for some Virtual Machines with Linux, and 1
>> Node i want to install as second KVM Server too. With the same virtual
>> Machines in DRBD Devices. I want to boot the second Node every 2 Weeks
>> to sync the Datta and then to shutdown. So i want to have in fail of the
>> first Node a Backup Server.
>>
>> What the Best Way to do this? I think i install both Nodes with the DRBD
>> and switch the Primary to Master, the second Machine to the DRBD Slave.
>> Does the DRBD become problems when i shutdown the slave Device for so a
>> long time?
>>
>> greetings
>>
>> Hauke