Re: How to handle a failed drive

2013-12-12 Thread Timo Gatsonides
Thanks a lot, never saw that page! I’m definitely going to try that … as soon as it’s after 22.00 so as not to disturb the users too much. -Timo > Hi Timo, > > Since you have the original ring from the node, all you should have to > do is replace the drive, bring Riak up using the same settin

Re: How to handle a failed drive

2013-12-12 Thread Luke Bakken
Hi Timo, Since you have the original ring from the node, all you should have to do is replace the drive, bring Riak up using the same settings as before (in app.config/vm.args), and use the method here to force read-repair to repopulate the data: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/running/reco

How to handle a failed drive

2013-12-12 Thread Timo Gatsonides
I’m looking for advice what the best way forward would be with a failed drive. I have a cluster of 6 machines. The data partition (not including the ring file, only the LevelDB data) is on a separate drive. On one of the servers that drive has crashed and is replaced by a new drive. What would