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Jan 26, 2018
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Douglas Barbosa Alexandre
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[ci skip] Improve Geo Disaster Recovery docs for systenms in multi-secondary configurations
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@@ -9,18 +9,17 @@ fail-over with minimal effort, in a disaster situation.
See
[
current limitations
](
README.md#current-limitations
)
for more information.
##
# Step 1. Promoting a secondary geo replica
##
Promoting secondary Geo replica in single-secondary configuration
> **Warning:** Disaster Recovery does not yet support systems with multiple
> secondary geo replicas (e.g. one primary and two or more secondaries).
We don't currently provide an automated way to promote a geo replica and do a
We don't currently provide an automated way to promote a Geo replica and do a
fail-over, but you can do it manually if you have
`root`
access to the machine.
This process promotes a secondary Geo replica to a primary. To regain
geographical redundancy as quickly as possible, you should add a new secondary
immediately after following these instructions.
### Step 1. Promoting a secondary Geo replica
1.
SSH into your
**primary**
to stop and disable GitLab.
```bash
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@@ -124,10 +123,17 @@ secondary domain, like changing Git remotes and API URLs.
If you updated the DNS records for the primary domain, these changes may
not have yet propagated depending on the previous DNS records TTL.
### Step 3. (Optional) Add secondary
g
eo replicas to a promoted primary
### Step 3. (Optional) Add secondary
G
eo replicas to a promoted primary
Promoting a secondary to primary using the process above does not enable
GitLab Geo on the new primary.
To bring a new secondary online, follow the
[
GitLab Geo setup instructions
](
README.md#setup-instructions
)
.
## Promoting secondary Geo replica in multi-secondary configurations
Disaster Recovery does not yet support systems with multiple
secondary Geo replicas (e.g. one primary and two or more secondaries). We are
working on it, see
[
#4284
](
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4284
)
for details.
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