Commit 0860559f authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'cat-add-geo-backfill-info' into 'master'

Add backfill details for Geo in the docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!49316
parents d9aa0aae d725c744
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For an example of how to set up a location-aware Git remote URL with AWS Route53, see [Location-aware Git remote URL with AWS Route53](replication/location_aware_git_url.md).
### Backfill
Once a **secondary** node is set up, it will start replicating missing data from
the **primary** node in a process known as **backfill**. You can monitor the
synchronization process on each Geo node from the **primary** node's **Geo Nodes**
dashboard in your browser.
Failures that happen during a backfill are scheduled to be retried at the end
of the backfill.
## Remove Geo node
For more information on removing a Geo node, see [Removing **secondary** Geo nodes](replication/remove_geo_node.md).
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To resolve the issue, upgrade to GitLab 12.1 or newer.
### Failures during backfill
During a [backfill](../index.md#backfill), failures are scheduled to be retried at the end
of the backfill queue, therefore these failures only clear up **after** the backfill completes.
### Resetting Geo **secondary** node replication
If you get a **secondary** node in a broken state and want to reset the replication state,
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