Re: [Gluster-users] Is it possible to start geo-replication between two volumes with data already present in the slave?

2014-12-16 Thread Nathan Aldridge
Hello again, Ok - I managed to get a list of gfids and pathnames transferred to the slave server. I began the process of updating the heal - but I get a bunch of stale file handles when I try and run the following on the slave volume: cd $GLUSTER_SRC/extras/geo-rep

Re: [Gluster-users] Is it possible to start geo-replication between two volumes with data already present in the slave?

2014-12-15 Thread Aravinda
When you directly sync files using rsync, rsync creates a file in slave if not exists. Due to this, rsync creates a file in slave with different GFID than the one available in master. This is a problem for geo-rep to continue syncing to slave. Before starting geo-replication as a prerequisite

Re: [Gluster-users] Is it possible to start geo-replication between two volumes with data already present in the slave?

2014-12-15 Thread Nathan Aldridge
Hi, Thanks for your response. I attempted to run the generate-gfid-file.sh script but it failed when it encountered whitespace in some of the filenames. I'll take a look to see if I can see what is breaking in the scripts... but if you know offhand, that would be appreciated? I see a whole lot

[Gluster-users] Is it possible to start geo-replication between two volumes with data already present in the slave?

2014-12-13 Thread Nathan Aldridge
Hi, I have a large volume that I want to geo-replicate using Gluster ( 1Tb). I have the data rsynced on both servers and up to date. Can I start a geo-replication session without having to send the whole contents over the wire to the slave, since it's already there? I'm running Gluster 3.6.1.