Hi Luke,

Again, thanks for your help. We are currently preparing to move all objects
into a new cluster using the S3 API. One question on configuration:
currently I have "storage_backend = leveldb" in my riak.conf. I assume that
on the new cluster, in addition to using the advanced.config you provided,
I also need to set "storage_backend = multi" in riak.conf – is that correct?

Referring back to the subject of this thread for a bit, I'm assuming your
current theory for why the (most recent) object went missing is because we
have a bad backend configuration. Note that that object went missing weeks
after it was originally written into riak, and it was successfully
retrieved many times before it went missing. Is there a way I can query
riak to verify your theory that the manifest was overwritten? Russel Brown
suggested: "I wonder if you can get the manifest and then see if any/all of
the chunks are present?" Would that help to answer the question about why
the object went missing? Can you provide any hints on how to do that?

While bad configuration may be the cause of this most recent object going
missing, it does not explain the original two objects that went missing
immediately after they were PUT. Those original incidents happened when our
cluster was still using bitcask/mutli backend, so should not have been
affected by bad configuration.

~ Daniel

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Luke Bakken <lbak...@basho.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for providing all of that information.
>
> You are missing important configuration for riak_kv that can only be
> provided in an /etc/riak/advanced.config file. Please see the following
> document, especially the section to which I link here:
>
> http://docs.basho.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/cookbooks/configuration/
> riak-for-cs/#setting-up-the-proper-riak-backend
>
> [
>     {riak_kv, [
>         *% NOTE: double-check this path for your environment:*
>         {add_paths, ["/usr/lib/riak-cs/lib/riak_cs-2.1.1/ebin"]},
>         {storage_backend, riak_cs_kv_multi_backend},
>         {multi_backend_prefix_list, [{<<"0b:">>, be_blocks}]},
>         {multi_backend_default, be_default},
>         {multi_backend, [
>             {be_default, riak_kv_eleveldb_backend, [
>                 {data_root, "/opt/data/ecryptfs/riak"}
>             ]},
>             {be_blocks, riak_kv_eleveldb_backend, [
>                 {data_root, "/opt/data/ecryptfs/riak_blocks"}
>             ]}
>         ]}
>     ]}
> ].
>
> Your configuration will look like the above. The contents of this file are
> merged with the contents of /etc/riak/riak.conf to produce the
> configuration that Riak uses.
>
> Notice that I chose riak_kv_eleveldb_backend twice because of the
> discussion you had previously about RAM usage and bitcask (
> http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.
> com/2016-November/018801.html)
>
> In your current configuration, you are not using the expected prefix for
> the block data. My guess is that on very rare occasions your data happens
> to overwrite the manifest for a file. You may also have corrupted files at
> this point without noticing it at all.
>
> *IMPORTANT:* you can't switch from your current configuration to this new
> one without re-saving all of your data.
>
> --
> Luke Bakken
> Engineer
> lbak...@basho.com
>
> --
> Luke Bakken
> Engineer
> lbak...@basho.com
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Daniel Miller <dmil...@dimagi.com> wrote:
>
>> Responses inline.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Luke Bakken <lbak...@basho.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> Two questions:
>>>
>>> * Do you happen to have an /etc/riak/app.config file present?
>>>
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Not sure if relevant, but I did notice that /etc/riak-cs/advanced.config
>> does exist, which contradicts with what I said earlier. This is surprising
>> to me because I did not create this file. Maybe it was created by the riak
>> installer? Anyway, the content is:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/riak-cs/advanced.config
>> [
>>  {riak_cs,
>>   [
>>   ]}
>> ].
>>
>>
>>>
>>> * On one of your Riak nodes, could you please execute the following
>>> commands:
>>>
>>> riak attach
>>> rp(application:get_all_env(riak_kv)).
>>>
>>> Copy the output of the previous command and attach as a separate file
>>> to your response. Please note that the period is significant. Use
>>> CTRL-C CTRL-C to exit the "riak attach" session.
>>>
>>
>> Attached.
>>
>>
>>
>
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