[rabbitmq-discuss] HA - queues do not move?

Wed Aug 31 15:36:18 BST 2011

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 21:31, John Jeffers <john.jeffers at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I'm new to Rabbit, so please forgive me if this is a dumb question)
>
> I followed the instructions at http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html
> to build a two-node HA environment.  My nodes are RabbitMQ 2.5.1 on
> CentOS 6 64-bit, and I'm using a network share for shared storage
> instead of DRBD.
>
> The nodes failover just fine, and most things seem to be working as
> expected, however, I've noticed that when I take Node 1 down and it
> fails over to Node 2, the queues and messages on Node 1 do not move to
> Node 2.  Is this expected behavior?  I expected that the point of the
> shared storage would be so that messages would not be lost in the
> event of a failover, but maybe my expectations are incorrect?

Have you set 'persistenece' flag on the queues and 'durability' flag
on messages?

Chees,
  Marek