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author | Alex Auvolat <alex@adnab.me> | 2021-05-31 23:55:51 +0200 |
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committer | Alex Auvolat <alex@adnab.me> | 2021-05-31 23:55:51 +0200 |
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diff --git a/doc/book/src/cookbook/recovering.md b/doc/book/src/cookbook/recovering.md index 2d8f4b80..a6f15fcb 100644 --- a/doc/book/src/cookbook/recovering.md +++ b/doc/book/src/cookbook/recovering.md @@ -6,14 +6,18 @@ Fear not! For Garage is fully equipped to handle drive failures, in most common ## A note on availability of Garage -With nodes dispersed in 3 datacenters or more, here are the guarantees Garage provides with the default replication strategy (3 copies of all data, which is the recommended value): +With nodes dispersed in 3 zones or more, here are the guarantees Garage provides with the 3-way replication strategy (3 copies of all data, which is the recommended replication mode): -- The cluster remains fully functional as long as the machines that fail are in only one datacenter. This includes a whole datacenter going down due to power/Internet outage. -- No data is lost as long as the machines that fail are in at most two datacenters. +- The cluster remains fully functional as long as the machines that fail are in only one zone. This includes a whole zone going down due to power/Internet outage. +- No data is lost as long as the machines that fail are in at most two zones. -Of course this only works if your Garage nodes are correctly configured to be aware of the datacenter in which they are located. +Of course this only works if your Garage nodes are correctly configured to be aware of the zone in which they are located. Make sure this is the case using `garage status` to check on the state of your cluster's configuration. +In case of temporarily disconnected nodes, Garage should automatically re-synchronize +when the nodes come back up. This guide will deal with recovering from disk failures +that caused the loss of the data of a node. + ## First option: removing a node |