V Narayanan <[email protected]> writes: > On 04/08/09 16:30, Alan Burlison wrote: >> V Narayanan wrote: >> >>> Have you already seen this >>> http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/ReplicationWriteup ? >>> >>> You will find step by step instructions to get replication started >>> there! >> > I am not sure if you wanted to ask two separate questions or a single > question, I will treat them as two separate questions >> How do you 'fail back' to the master? > > fail back = auto failover? > > You mean after you failover and your slave becomes your new master, > how will you fail back to the old master? > > You will have to restart replication on the slave (i.e.) you will have > to do the freezing, copying data files again on the > slave.
We discussed this problem a while ago, and there were some suggestions of how to fail back to the master with as little downtime as possible. See here for the details: http://www.nabble.com/Replication---switching-back-after-failover-td19950674.html -- Knut Anders
