[smokeping-users] Question about master/slave and master outage

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Jay Canfield wrote:

> New to the list, hi all.
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> We have a master at our HQ, and a slave in each datacenter (2 other
> locations). Everything is working great as far as pulling in the info
> from the slaves. Just got it set up today.
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> My question is: If the master fails, or the interconnects between the
> master and slaves fail, is there any way to get smokeping  to backfill
> the missing data? Or is it a "we report it as we get it" kind of model?
> If we can't backfill, we'll just use 3 masters, but I was curious if
> there is a way to maintain data consistency if the master is down or the
> cxn to our hq is down.

When the master (or the link to the master) fails, the slaves will
accumulate data and report it once the master is back ...

cheers
tobi
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> Thanks!
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> Jay Canfield
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> Jay.canfield at channelblade.com
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