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title: "Failover and fencing"
description: "How can you fence an old primary after a role failover?"
status: "coming-soon"
language: "en"
canonical: "https://bulnik.dev/en/articles/topics/T41.06/"
topicId: "T41.06"
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> Coming soon — this article is being prepared. Below are its question, intended outcome, and place in the story.

## The question

How can you fence an old primary after a role failover?

## What we will work through

Fence an old primary after a role failover.

## Before you begin

Previously covered: Physical replication; Distributed locks and fencing tokens.

- [Physical replication](/en/articles/topics/T41.02/)
- [Distributed locks and fencing tokens](/en/articles/topics/T43.06/)