Brian, Replace-brick is not what you need here. Replace-brick is designed to be used for a planned decommissioning of a node and migration of data from it to a new node. You can only use replace-brick when both the source and the target servers are up and running. If you have a catastrophic failure where one of the servers gets its OS disk completely wiped, you need to do this: http://europe.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Brick_Restoration_-_Replace_Crashed_Server -- Vikas Gorur Engineer - Gluster -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110916/1cc6fe1e/attachment.htm>