My apologies, I just needed to try again, I got it working now. Thanks for clearing everything up!
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:39 PM Matthew Harris <harrisman1...@gmail.com> wrote: > That was definitely my point of confusion, thank you both for clearing it > up. > > One quick follow up - what's the best way to analyze the contents of a > "*.amq" journal file? I've tried various uses of the "artemis data ___" > command, but I've never gotten the messages I've sent during a broker's > session to show up when analyzing the journal files with any methods I've > tried. > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:17 PM Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> In my opinion the documentation is not very clear on this point. It says: >> >> > ActiveMQ Artemis will keep a copy of each generated journal file, up to >> the configured retention period, at the unit chose. On the example above >> the system would keep all the journal files up to 365 days. >> >> As far as I can tell "each generated journal" file is different from >> "candidates for deletion." >> >> I will fix this soon if nobody else beats me to it first. >> >> >> Justin >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:09 AM Gary Tully <gary.tu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > It does not keep two copies of the data, is is more that journal files >> > that are candidates for deletion are archived or retained rather than >> > being deleted. >> > if the data is still in the journal, then it won't exist in the >> > retention folder. >> > >> > send and consume more messages such that compaction would cleanup and >> > remove some journal data files, those will then appear in the >> > retention folder. >> > >> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 16:33, Matthew Harris <harrisman1...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I'm trying to set up data persistence with an Artemis ActiveMQ broker, >> > > version 2.20.0. >> > > >> > > In broker.xml, I use a "journal-retention-directory" tag to create a >> > > copy of the journals generated by running the broker in the >> > > "data/retention" directory for 365 days, as described in the >> > documentation >> > > here: >> > > >> > >> https://activemq.apache.org/components/artemis/documentation/latest/persistence.html >> > > . >> > > >> > > After I do this, I use "artemis producer" and "artemis consumer" to >> send >> > > and receive sample messages and populate the journal with data. >> However, >> > > once I stop the broker using "artemis stop" and move to the >> > > "data/retention" directory, I see no copies of the journals. >> > > >> > > Am I missing something in the set up, or is there something else I >> need >> > to >> > > do to enable retention? I've been troubleshooting this for a bit and >> am a >> > > little lost. >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Matthew >> > >> > >> >
