On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Marius Bergmann <mar...@yeai.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running a very tiny setup of just two servers, which each host > several gluster bricks in a n=2 replica configuration. Now I want to > reinstall the operating system on one of the hosts without having to > resync all of the volumes afterwards. I found that there's some metadata > outside of the volume bricks, e.g. in /etc/glusterfs, /var/lib/glusterd etc. > > Can I/do I have to take a (cold) backup of that metadata before > reinstalling the host OS, so that there's only a small delta to be > synced once the node is up again? If yes, which directories should be > backed up? >
/var/lib/glusterd holds everything you need, you'll be okay backing up and restoring it. /etc/glusterfs is installed by the glusterfs packages and doesn't have anything that changes. > Kind regards, > Marius > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@gluster.org > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
