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<DIV>Hello, this is my first post.</DIV>
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<DIV>In a test environment, I have been testing likely failures and how to recover from them.</DIV>
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<DIV>I was testing the event that a disc begins to fail, and we decide to remove the brick, and its counterpart replica brick from the volume.</DIV>
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<DIV>Steps:</DIV>
<DIV>1. Call 'gluster volume remove-brick' on 2 bricks in a distribute-replicate set up (with other bricks in volume).</DIV>
<DIV>2. During this process, physically detaching the 2nd removing brick - simulating a complete disc failure.</DIV>
<DIV>3. After removal, commit the removal.</DIV>
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<DIV>Result:</DIV>
<DIV>A number of files on the volume are missing (around 25%).</DIV>
<DIV>The 'healthy' disconnected brick is still mounted, and I can see the missing files inside it.</DIV>
<DIV>Is there a way to restore these files back into the volume correctly. I have considered 'cp'ing them back in - but would like to know if there is a better option.</DIV>
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<DIV>I appreciate this is a test environment, however, I feel this is a reasonably likely occurance.</DIV>
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<DIV>Many thanks</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>