Hi Joseph, The obvious solution that springs to mind is using a snapshot, either at the block level (LVM), file system (ZFS, btrfs), or virtual machine level.
-Mark On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Guhlin <joseph.guh...@gmail.com>wrote: > What is the best way to refresh a Riak server? I'm using it in a > different way in that I do not need any persistence of the data and in > fact need the data cleared out each restart(but the data is too large > to hold in RAM). > > Basically I am using riak(or a cluster of 4, depending on where I'm at > in the development stages) to store objects that are shared between 12 > processes that are independent from each other and each given a chunk > to work on, in the end all the necessary data is exported to flat > textfiles. > > I've found when I restart riak I end up getting errors when I try to > re-input the data. I've tried rm -rf'ing the data directory and it > definitely does not like that. So far make clean; make rel has been > the best solution for me. > > I'm sure for my use case there is a better tool(or not, Riak works > great, gives me fast read/write support and let's me store the data in > encoded form to be passed to other processes for later mangling). Any > ideas? > > Sorry if this has been asked before, I tried searching and couldn't > come up with anything. > > Thanks, > --Joseph > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >
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