On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Branton Davis <branton.da...@spanning.com > > wrote: > >> Is that also true if you're standing up multiple nodes from backups that >> already have data? Could you not stand up more than one at a time since >> they already have the data? >> > > An operator probably almost never wants to add multiple > not-previously-joined nodes to an active cluster via auto_bootstrap:false. > > The one case I can imagine is when you are starting a cluster which is not > receiving any write traffic and does contain snapshots. > > =Rob > Just to clarify, I was thinking about a scenario/disaster where we lost the entire cluster and had to rebuild from backups. I assumed we would start each node with the backed up data and commit log directories already there and with auto_bootstrap=false, and I also hoped that we could do all nodes at once, since they each already had their data. Is that wrong? If so, how would you handle such a situation?
