Re: Best way to back-up riak

2010-07-27 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Honestly the holding back of replication from Riak OS is the only real downside to the product. Reminds me of the old adage there's those that will never pay for OS software...and those that can't afford not to (because of things like Sox). -J Sent via iPhone Is your e-mail Premiere? On Jul

Re: Best way to back-up riak

2010-07-27 Thread Justin Sheehy
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Alan McConnell wrote: > I'm curious about this as well.  Say I have a ten node cluster.  Could I > just schedule a midnight copy of each bitcask data directory every night, > then restore to another ten node cluster by dropping one of each data > directories on ea

Re: Best way to back-up riak

2010-07-21 Thread Alan McConnell
I'm curious about this as well. Say I have a ten node cluster. Could I just schedule a midnight copy of each bitcask data directory every night, then restore to another ten node cluster by dropping one of each data directories on each new node? How close does the timing needs to be? What if the

Re: Best way to back-up riak

2010-07-12 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hey Justin, Since Riak is lockless, what is the best approach to pulling a distributed FS snapshot of the bitcask files across nodes? I assume if they're not close to each other, you'll have an issue if you have to restore a cluster. -J On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Justin Sheehy wrote: > H

Re: Best way to back-up riak

2010-07-11 Thread Jan Vincent
Great! Thanks for the info. On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Justin Sheehy wrote: > Hi, Jan. > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jan Vincent wrote: > >> Given that riak is new in the database field, if ever I use riak in >> production, >> what would be the best way to back it up? I know that t

Re: Best way to back-up riak

2010-07-11 Thread Justin Sheehy
Hi, Jan. On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jan Vincent wrote: > Given that riak is new in the database field, if ever I use riak in > production, > what would be the best way to back it up? I know that there's redundancy > on the different nodes and NRW may be modifiable per request, but I'm > w