Re: [ADMIN] Recovery plan for DRDB setup - recovery tool

2006-12-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:36 +, Morten Andersen wrote: > Our initial tests also shows that the failovers are problem free. But > we > would like to have a plan for how to handle the case where a failover > fails. With respect to DRBD, you'd need to look at how that works specifically since it i

Re: [ADMIN] Recovery plan for DRDB setup - recovery tool

2006-12-08 Thread Morten Andersen
Hi Peter, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Morten Andersen wrote: So are there any Postgresql tools for analyzing and repairing the "offline" database files (like e.g. the MySQL 'myisamchk'-tool). No. So, how do other DRDB Postgresql sites handles failovers. Do you do anything pro-active on the s

Re: [ADMIN] Recovery plan for DRDB setup - recovery tool

2006-12-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Morten Andersen wrote: > So are there any Postgresql tools for analyzing and repairing the > "offline" database files (like e.g. the MySQL 'myisamchk'-tool). No. > So, how do other DRDB Postgresql sites handles failovers. Do you do > anything pro-active on the slave before starting Postgresql, or

[ADMIN] Recovery plan for DRDB setup - recovery tool

2006-12-07 Thread Morten Andersen
Hello, We are analyzing a master-slave setup of Postgresql 8.1 using DRDB (v.0.7, type 'C'), and judging from the mailing list, this setup is succesfully in production at several places. Our initial tests also shows that the failovers are problem free. But we would like to have a plan for how to