Re: Changing an existing node's name

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Klophaus
Hi Elias, In addition to changing the -name setting in vm.args, you must also run the 'riak-admin reip' command. This command renames a node, essentially telling the cluster that any data associated with the old node name should now be associated with the new node name. The node in question should

Changing an existing node's name

2011-10-28 Thread Elias Levy
I've been reading in the archives about setting the node name in vm.args to something durable and that you can reuse if you want to restore a node from a backup. What would happen if there was a mistmatch is not stated, but the implication it that restore would fail. Is that the case? Can you ch