The Mighty Buzzard writes:
Yeah, so, failure to babysit the db node that was scheduled for a reboot on the 5th resulted in a bit of database FUBAR that left us temporarily losing everything from then to now. Fortunately we had a backup less than six hours old, restored from it, and appear to be copacetic now. Except for the missing five hours and change.
I'd usually make some sort of dumb joke here but it was already four hours past my bedtime when I found out about the problem. My brain is no work good anymore. Fill in whatever dad joke or snark about getting a do-over for a change strikes your fancy.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 11 2020, @10:11PM (1 child)
Point being, if there is only one non-data management node and it fails or is otherwise down for some reason, we're right back where we are now. I thought not being where we are right now was the entire idea.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @02:13AM
No, if it fails, there is no arbitrator but you still have a quorum, which means they just elect a new one or continue without one. But, you also would have survived the explained incident automatically without the split brain that resulted had you had one. I could go on, but you are going to do whatever you want anyway, so I'm not going to bother anymore.