Hi Justin Thank you for your input.
Sorry, should have been clearer on our setup - We are not running multiple brokers on the same JVM but a single instance per VM, so each one has a dedicated JVM and VM Thanks Roy > On 27 Mar 2023, at 16:59, Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> wrote: > > I'm not entirely sure if the configuration you want is possible. You might > try using the "group-name" element in the "master" or "slave" element of > "colocated." Only servers with the same group-name will pair together. > > Aside from that I would actually recommend against using colocated brokers. > The original use-case for this functionality was very early cloud > infrastructure where durable, attached storage was not readily available. > However, since then most (if not all) cloud environments support durable > storage separate from the broker so that if the broker goes down a new, > identical broker can be spun-up relatively quickly and attached to the same > storage. This provides functional high availability without the need for > any idle backups or replication of any kind which functionally nullifies > this feature. > > Additionally, it turns out that (surprise!) configuring & running multiple > brokers in the same JVM is difficult and error-prone not to mention the > complication of dynamically coordinating the acquisition of backups in a > running cluster and protecting against split-brain. > > > Justin > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 7:37 AM Roy Cohen <roy_co...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> We have a setup of three Artemis brokers (very old version don’t ask :)) >> >> We would like to configure the co located backups such that the backups >> are sent in this order: >> >> Broker01 -> Broker02 >> Broker02 -> Broker03 >> Broker03 -> Broker01 >> >> >> I was reading on co located backups here: >> https://activemq.apache.org/components/artemis/documentation/1.0.0/ha.html >> however not sure I fully understand how to configure the xml section to >> achieve that. >> >> Shall I add excludes in each broker, i.e. >> >> <colocated> >> <excludes> >> <connector-ref>...</connector-ref> >> </excludes> >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Many thanks in advance ! >> >> >>
