[Gluster-users] Suggested method for replacing an entire node

[Alastair Neil]

Ahh that is good to know.

On 8 October 2015 at 09:50, Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> -Atin
> Sent from one plus one
> On Oct 8, 2015 7:17 PM, "Alastair Neil" <ajneil.tech at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think you should back up /var/lib/glusterd and then restore it after
> the reinstall and installation of glusterfs packages.  Assuming the node
> will have the same hostname and ip addresses and you are installing the
> same version gluster bits, I think it should be fine.  I am assuming you
> are not using ssl for the connections if so you will need to back up the
> keys for that too.
> If the same machine is used with out hostname/ IP change, backing up
> glusterd configuration *is not* needed as syncing the configuration will be
> taken care peer handshaking.
>
> >
> > -Alastair
> >
> > On 8 October 2015 at 00:12, Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/07/2015 10:28 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:
> >> > I want to replace my existing CentOS 6 nodes with CentOS 7 ones. Is
> >> > there a recommended way to go about this from the perspective of
> >> > Gluster? I am running a 3 node replicated cluster (3 servers each
> with 1
> >> > brick). In case it makes a difference, my bricks are on separate
> drives
> >> > formatted as XFS so it is possible that I can do my OS reinstall
> without
> >> > wiping out the data on two nodes (the third had a hardware failure so
> it
> >> > will be fresh from the ground up).
> >> That's possible. You could do the re-installation one at a time. Once
> >> the node comes back online self heal daemon will take care of healing
> >> the data. AFR team can correct me if I am wrong.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Atin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > *Gene Liverman*
> >> > Systems Integration Architect
> >> > Information Technology Services
> >> > University of West Georgia
> >> > gliverma at westga.edu <mailto:gliverma at westga.edu>
> >> >
> >> > ITS: Making Technology Work for You!
> >> >
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