Commit 825f7de0 authored by Stan Hu's avatar Stan Hu

Move warning into second block about recovery

parent bad8406a
......@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ 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.
**Warning: If a primary goes offline, there may be data saved on the primary
that has not been replicated to the secondary. This data should be treated
as lost if you proceed.**
### Step 1. Allow replication to finish if possible
If the secondary is still replicating data from the primary, follow
......@@ -30,6 +26,10 @@ order to avoid unnecessary data loss.
### Step 2. Permanently disable the primary
**Warning: If a primary goes offline, there may be data saved on the primary
that has not been replicated to the secondary. This data should be treated
as lost if you proceed.**
If an outage on your primary happens, you should do everything possible to
avoid a split-brain situation where writes can occur to two different GitLab
instances, complicating recovery efforts. So to prepare for the failover, we
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