Looking at the DNS zone. it is completely busted containing records
for the r1, r2, r3 and r4. I have no instances of r3 and r4 roles.

Guys, please help to clean this up. This is impacting our production
environment.



On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Mikhail Malamud<[email protected]> wrote:
> Donovan, thanks.
>
> It is a big bite and completely pointless, not considering the fact it
> breaks everything since there is no such role in that farm.
>
> Can you elaborate though on
>
> "To recover go into each farm and set the role back to r1."
>
> When I go to applications, I cannot even select the true roles that
> are in that farm.
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Donovan Bray<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> This is by design unfortunately. It's confusing and bites everybody
>> who runs more than one farm in their scalr account.
>>
>> Sync-all will restart instances with the same source role name
>> regardless of what farm they are in; thus if you have r1 in nine
>> different farms if you sync it to r3 all nine farms will be changed to
>> r3.
>>
>> To recover go into each farm and set the role back to r1.
>>
>> To prevent that from occurring next time instead of creating a farm
>> and selecting r1 as your source instance; go to roles new and create
>> r3 and base it off of an instance running r1. After you've synced and
>> renamed the requisite roles, create your farm using the new role
>> names, modify to suit then sync those roles again.
>>
>> I see no advantage to the current design, I've never needed a cross
>> farm sync but it's bitten me in the ass more times than I care to admit.
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:37 PM, mmalamud <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> let me clarify this a little more.
>>>
>>> 1. Farm 1 {r1, r2}
>>> 2. Farm 2 {r1, r2}
>>> 3. Synch All on Farm 2, Choose new roles names {r3, r4}
>>> 4. Now application myapp.com which was pointing to Farm 1, r1 points
>>> to Farm 1, r3.
>>>
>>> r3 does not even exist in farm 1.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 1, 1:41 pm, mmalamud <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> This is a major issue. Here is what happened
>>>>
>>>> farm1 had roles r1 and r2
>>>>
>>>> farm 2 had same roles
>>>>
>>>> I did synchronize all on r1 and r2 but chose new role names r3 and
>>>> r4.
>>>>
>>>> r1 and r2 stayed fine in farm1 but my application which which was
>>>> pointing to r1 in farm1 now points to r3 in farm1 and r3 does not
>>>> even
>>>> exist in farm1.
>>>>
>>>> farm id is 2270.
>>>>
>>>> application should be pointing to www64-2009xxxx role. not www64-stg3
>>> >
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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