Questions tagged [failover]
Failover is the concept of moving services from one host or node to another in order to provide high availability in a computing system.
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Database Mirroring - Will forcing the service only lose non-committed data?
I have a database mirroring session in high safety mode between Server1 (Primary) and Server2 (Secondary)
According to this, synchronous data mirroring means
every transaction committed on the ...
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Does this plan work as a Failover strategy-SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition
We have two SQL Server 2016 Standard edition (standard edition due to budget issues) configured one as primary sql server and another one as fail-over server.
I have implemented Transactional ...
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PostgreSQL 9.6 pg_rewind - takes a long time to replicate
I use Streaming Replication,and Replication works normally.
Two servers are HA and PostgreSQL DB is replicated.
The data in the DB is about 40G.
When a failover occurs, the slave is successfully ...
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Trigger SQL Agent job based on text in error log for an AG failover
I have a 2 node AG setup (Not an FCI). I need to configure an alert to trigger a job based on a string found in the error log showing that the node is now the new primary.
The string I want to use is:
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How to set an IP for automatic failover with repmgr can been accessed from application?
OS: CentOS
DB: PostgreSQL
By repmgr, set replication and automatic failover on 2 database servers successfully.
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HA and Automatic Failover with PostgreSQL
The most popular third-party tools are pgpool and regmgr.
pgpool can do HA and automatic failover, regmgr can also do replication and automatic failover. Some articles show using both of them to do ...
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How to maintain a Database with stored procedure that runs forever?
I have an interesting question and I cannot find a reply.
I would like to create a database of prime numbers. On this page Prime numbers in a given range , I can find various examples of SQL code ...
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SQL Replication groups in Windows failover clusters RRS feed
I have a scenario where there is a Cluster of 2 Windows servers that have SQL Standard. Between those servers is replication, and we need to use replication groups for each database, what is the best ...
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what happens to user connections when an AG fails over?
I'm not sure quite how to word this, but I am looking for anything a DBA can do (things outside of changing code in the application) to reduce the impact to users when an AG fails over.
We have a 2 ...
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Mongo primary failover causes rollback
I have a replicaset that processes largish batches of inserts (a few million) every night. Last night, the primary failed over and went into a rollback state. All clients which access this replicaset ...
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I would like to understand better the difference between “sql server stand alone” and “sql server failover instance”
AS these question asks:
Are "Always On Failover Cluster Instances" and "SQL Server Failover Clustering" the same thing?
Shouldn't Windows Server Failover Clustering already ...
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MariaDB Master / Slave failover / failback automation
Good day all, I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction.
I'm working on a new dual data center project, and I'm trying to come up with a plan for failover (for patching and ...
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SQL Server Always-On Availability Groups LeaseTimeout
One of my AG environments encountered the error
The lease between availability group XXXXXXX and the Windows Server
Failover Cluster has expired. A connectivity issue occurred between
the ...
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Repmgr service crashes during automatic failover, slave's upstream node points to failed master - PostgreSQL
We are using Centos7 with PostgreSQL 11.5 and Repmgr 4.4 in our system. We have setup an automatic failover system using Repmgr with a 3 node cluster (1 master - Server A, 2 standbys - Server C and F) ...
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Availability Groups automatic failover is not so automatic
Behavior when I stop SQL Server Service :
The availability group fails (resolving on SECONDARY SQL SERVER and fail state on Cluster management).
SQL Server does not connect with the Cluster ip (I'm ...
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TFS Installation Fails over to mirroring secondary despite not having a Fail-over partner specified
We have TFS Version 15.105.27412.0 installed on a server (Server A) and have it configured to point at our database server (Server B).
We have the two TFS databases (tfs_defaultcollection and ...
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Failover strategy for SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition
I am using SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition.
I have two database servers, SQL01 and SQL02 with only one database, and I am utilizing transactional replication for bringing data from SQL01 to SQL02.
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History of cluster failover
Is it possible to get a history of when a cluster failed over and which node became the active node?
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Database level health check did not trigger failover on losing a disk
I'm testing the new database level detection option in 2016 SQL Enterprise SP2 CU7 edition, and it does not seem to be working as expected. We have a 2 node setup, synchronous commit, automatic ...
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Not able to add a node into windows failover cluster
I had two node cluster but due to disk corruption one node was removed. After maintenance when second node came back we tried to add it into the cluster but getting exception.
I checked the even log ...
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SQL Server takes an hour to fail over to secondary node
I am at a new job, we have a 2008 R2 (SP1) WSFC which hosts SQL Server 2008 FCI.
Each node has it's own storage, nodes are 32 core with 32 GB memory (don't ask me why it is configured this way). ...
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Unexpected failover of RDS-MySQL server
We have a 16GB RDS-MySQL Multi-AZ instance. Of late, it has unexpectedly failed over multiple times causing the dependent application to be offline for over 15 minutes.
AWS-Support blamed it on high ...
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Fail-over or switching the Reporting server database
I have two databases in server, dbs-01.One is a transactional database and a reporting server database.Reporting is minimum,that is why we have it together in the same instance.
I have transactional ...
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Transaction Replication as DR solution
I have a production database server and a failover database server set up.
All the transactions from the primary production db server is being replicated(transactional replication with initialize ...
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How To Prevent Live Servers From Detecting a Forced Failover?
We are using an AlwaysOn Availability Group in SQL 2017 on Windows Server 2016 which consists of two servers on our primary site and one DR server on a remote site.
We recently did an internal IT DR ...
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Data Loss when forced failed over to secondary replica on Sql Server 2014
Setup:
2 Availability Groups
2 Replicas on Synchronous Commits.
1 Replica on Asynchronous Commit.
Automatic Failover configured for the two replicas on Synchronous Commits.
Manual Failover ...
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DATABASE lacks a quorum of nodes for high availability
Just after setting up successfully alwayson - availability group,
testing the failover,
I get this error message:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Failed to resume data movement in ...
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How to fail over availability groups on multiple remote servers
We have many SQL Server installations with availability groups. During our maintenance window, we will need to fail over all the HA groups to secondaries, patch the primary servers, then fail back, ...
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Windows 2016 Workgroup failover cluster
I am building a two node Window failover cluster for SQL Server AG. I am getting following errors in the cluster log.
Please help me to resolve the error.
Thanks
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MySQL failover: how application can be switched to a new master in master-slave configuration?
In my case I have two MySQL servers. One is master and second one is slave.
When slave is not available, my application can read and write from/to master.
When master is not available, assume there ...
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PostgreSQL: pg_rewind complains about wal_log_hints = on not been set, it is
I'm rather new to pg so please bear with me.
I've set up two hosts and installed pg10 on both. Then I configured log streaming replication between them. This worked fine.
I wanted to test fail over,...
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Sync PostgreSQL with Cloud and multi Local Locations
I need help with a complex (for me) multi server setup with PostgreSQL.
I have to setup a Cloud Server and 3 Local Servers for our company.
Each Server will have:
Linux Ubuntu 16.04
Docker
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Enabling FileStream in existing clustered servers in SQL Server 2012
I have heard that enabling FileStream in an already existing clustered environment is tough. I'm working on a consolidation project and currently analyzing the impact it will have if we migrated DBs ...
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AlwaysOn Replicas set to manual but failing automatically
My two synchronous-commit SQL AO replicas are set for manual failover mode but are failing over automatically. When I look through the logs and extended events, it looks just like what would happen if ...
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Availability Group Upgrade 2012 to 2016 Data Move
I'm working with a team to upgrade a four node AlwaysOn Availability Group from SQL Server 2012 to 2016. Two of the nodes are local and two are in Azure. The database holds a large amount of data (2 ...
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TDE Enabled DB Always Going Into “Recovery Pending” on Secondary Node [duplicate]
I have a Windows Failover Cluster set up with SQL 2016 Enterprise SP2. TDE was implemented on a DB, on node1 the DB is able to start without issues. However, when a failover occurs, on node2 the DB ...
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Automate setting secondary node to primary when majority nodes are down-MongoDB
There are many ways to force a secondary node to become a primary when majority nodes are down in mongo replica set. But we need to do this manually. For eg, forcing reconfig:
cfg = rs.conf();
cfg....
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Remove Windows FCI completely
When I built the cluster I forgot to uncheck the storage. It's now giving me all sorts of errors. How can completely remove the cluster so I can rebuild it?
This is a 3 node cluster and I evicted two ...
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MultiSubnet Failover with RegisterAllProvidersIP 1
I am using a 2 node SQL AG (2014 EE) (each on a different subnet) and the Listener is configured with 2 Static IPs. The client application uses SQL Native Client 11.4.
My understanding is that this ...
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Keeping INSTANCE_NAME on Data Guard failover
I have a legacy application which uses a lot of PL/SQL stored procedures. It has a deeply ingrained need to know in which environment it is running, and uses the INSTANCE_NAME for that. For the sake ...
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Listener IP not changing after failover
We have a multi-subnet AlwaysOn availability group. There are 2 subnets and those are listed on the cluster and also the listener. Whenever I fail over and ping by the listener name it still shows ...
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File Share Witness with 4 Node Cluster
I am building a cluster of 4 nodes along with a file share witness. Every month due to server updates the server that holds the file share will need to be rebooted. My question is while the file ...
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Sync Login PW across Multiple Instances
When attempting to failover many logins fail due to nonmatching passwords on both instances. Is there a way for me to replicate passwords to other servers for all logins which passwords do not match.
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Azure automatic fail-over vs always on availability groups clarification
I am trying to understand automatic failover vs always on availability groups in Azure hybrid and geo-region situations:
Is it possible to have on-premises SQL databases, VM SQL databases and Azure ...
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Why is my DR AG database in the “recovery pending” state?
I am trying to build an architecture where we get automatic failover for both HA and DR for our DBs using SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups. When I tested this using only one Availability ...
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Automatic fail over in Always on availability group with 3 Node in synchronous mode and 1 Node in Asynchronous Mode
I am laying out a plan where there will be 3 Node on site with automatic fail over with synchronous mode and 1 remote replica with asynchronous mode. My question is if the primary goes down which node ...
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Why use Failover replica on Google Cloud RDS?
we are thinking of migrating our MySQL database from our dedicated server to a Google Cloud RDS instance. However I would like to clarify the below:
1) What is the purpose of creating a failover ...
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Edition upgrade on SQL Server failover clustered instance
We did Edition upgrade on our active node for the SQL Server instance SQL01 and that was successful.
I have a question/doubt --> Do I need to proceed the same on other node as well since SQL Server ...
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IP address to use with FCI, Always On AG and Always On (AG) FCI
My understanding is that HA can be achieved using either of the below and my concern was which IP address should client applications use when connecting to SQL Server:
Failover Clustering: For this ...
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Automatic failover (Clustering/Always On AG)
Let's says we have 2 nodes (N1, N2) clustered (say C1) on-site. And an Always On AG is configured between this cluster C1 and a new SQL server instance N3 (N3 is off-site).
Now, if there is a problem ...
