Commit 0b00bb96 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'cat-master-patch-67095' into 'master'

Clarify demoting in Geo DR planned failover docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!71371
parents 0710efc8 6071c9b6
......@@ -195,12 +195,13 @@ At this point, your **secondary** node contains an up-to-date copy of everything
## Promote the **secondary** node
Finally, follow the [Disaster Recovery docs](index.md) to promote the
**secondary** node to a **primary** node. This process causes a brief outage on the **secondary** node, and users may need to log in again.
After the replication is finished, [promote the **secondary** node to a **primary** node](index.md). This process causes a brief outage on the **secondary** node, and users may need to log in again. If you follow the steps correctly, the old primary Geo site should still be disabled and user traffic should go to the newly-promoted site instead.
Once it is completed, the maintenance window is over! Your new **primary** node, now
begin to diverge from the old one. If problems do arise at this point, failing
When the promotion is completed, the maintenance window is over, and your new **primary** node now
begins to diverge from the old one. If problems do arise at this point, failing
back to the old **primary** node [is possible](bring_primary_back.md), but likely to result
in the loss of any data uploaded to the new **primary** in the meantime.
Don't forget to remove the broadcast message after failover is complete.
Don't forget to remove the broadcast message after the failover is complete.
Finally, you can bring the [old site back as a secondary](bring_primary_back.md#configure-the-former-primary-node-to-be-a-secondary-node).
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