Re: Backing up riak

2012-04-25 Thread Swinney, Austin
I'd like to preface my comments by saying we love your product! We've really got high hopes for Riak at Vimeo! Also, my interest in backups has mainly to do with data corruption/loss from developers doing something bad. Hence, a node loss is one scenario, but having to restore all data from b

Re: Backing up riak

2012-04-25 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi Austin, On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Swinney, Austin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using leveldb on a 5 node ec2 cluster. I've read about the basic tar > zipping of leveldb and ring files per node. Also, I read about riak-admin > backup all. > > I'm curious about a couple things. > > 1) is the `

Backing up riak

2012-04-24 Thread Swinney, Austin
Hi, I'm using leveldb on a 5 node ec2 cluster. I've read about the basic tar zipping of leveldb and ring files per node. Also, I read about riak-admin backup all. I'm curious about a couple things. 1) is the `riak-admin backup all` command non-blocking? 2) is it a consistent backup or is