[Gluster-users] Gluster Volume Replication using 2 AWS instances on Autoscaling

[Vijay Bellur]

On 03/13/2014 09:18 AM, Alejandro Planas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have 2 AWS instances, 1 brick on each instance, one replicated volume
> among both instances. When one of the instances fails completely and
> autoscaling replaces it with a new one, we are having issues recreating
> the replicated volume again.
>
> Can anyone provide some light on the gluster commands required to
> include this new replacement instance (with one brick) as a member of
> the replicated volume?
>

You can probably use:

volume replace-brick <volname> <old-brick> <new-brick> commit force

This will remove the old-brick from the volume and bring in new-brick to 
the volume. self-healing can then synchronize data to the new brick.

Regards,
Vijay