Hi Francisco
When tarring up the data directories on nodes it's important to remember that
the partition to node mapping as defined in the ring file will determine where
a cluster looks for data.
Here is a method for migrating data to a new cluster:
Using "riak-admin reip" to restore Bitcask tarballs to a new cluster
Backup process:
1. Tarball the Bitcask and ring data directories for each node
* Package installed versions of Riak usually place this data in
"/var/lib/riak/bitcask" and "/var/lib/riak/ring"
Restore process:
1. Deploy a set of Riak nodes; same number of nodes as the backed up cluster
* Don't start or cluster the nodes
2. Restore the Bitcask and ring data to the new set of nodes
3. On each node run "riak-admin reip" for all nodes (explained in the example
below)
4. Start the Riak nodes
* there is no need to cluster the nodes; the restored ring file will form the
cluster
Example:
We have a cluster with 4 nodes (1, 2, 3, 4) which we want to backup and
restore to 4 new nodes (A, B, C, D)
Steps:
Backup the Bitcask and ring data directories for nodes 1, 2, 3,
4
Install Riak on nodes A, B, C, D
On node A:
Restore the Bitcask and ring data directories from node
1
Reip the ring file:
riak-admin reip node1 nodeA
riak-admin reip node2 nodeB
riak-admin reip node3 nodeC
riak-admin reip node4 nodeD
Repeat on nodes B, C, D using the back ups from 2, 3, 4
respectively
* The reip commands will be the same on all nodes
Start nodes A, B, C, D
Nodes A, B, C, D will form a cluster that is a clone of nodes
1, 2, 3, 4
Limitations:
Backups must be restored to the same number of nodes from which they
were taken
Thanks
Dan
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On Jul 29, 2011, at 3:22 PM, francisco treacy <francisco.tre...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm setting up a brand-new staging server, with Riak 0.14.2.
>
> As I want to get all production data, I thought I could scp the data
> directory into the new one (besides the ring dir).
>
> So that's what I did, and then started the staging db for the first
> time. It doesn't really work though. Many documents are present, but
> for others I get 404s and possibly 500s as I see tons of crashes in
> the logs (certainly many related to Luwak).
>
> I believed this kind of operation was legal... Is there something I'm
> missing, or something that could help?
>
> Ideally, I want to transfer fresh production data to staging via a
> cron job on a daily basis.
>
> Thanks,
> Francisco
>
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