You don't have to bring your databases offline, backup/restore can be done on online DB. See relay readme for example https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-relay/blob/master/README.md
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 7:58 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > With clustering being removed from influx, we are facing a problem with > viability of continuing with InfluxDB. We are still running a cluster, but > we want updates and some of the newer features not available in older > releases. I am curious as to what are our options, since outsourcing it is > not really an option in our environment. > > As I understand, the recommended tool is InfluxDB Relay, but that appears > far from being production ready and is missing much of the functionality to > make it true "HA". For one, it allows very easily to get data to get out of > sync between two instances and as far as I see, does not offer any easy way > to re-sync the instances without taking everything offline, backing both > instances up and re-starting them from a matched set. > > I thought I saw some non-cluster replication settings in the > documentation, but i am not finding it anymore, I am guessing this got > removed with clustering. > > Are there any other options? Ideally I would love to see something like a > transaction log that can be replayed on a replica - so that I can take a > snapshot of the box and then restore it onto another instance and resume > transaction log playback from the moment of the snapshot - but any other > ideas or ways to have at least a hot-standby would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -M > > -- > Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "InfluxDB" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/83f962e6-33d6-43e5-8306-664b34fa9210%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InfluxDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/influxdb. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CAD%2BeXGTCk7AWgV0aFJDUX_vdkaWoM0Z%2Bqm_-8Zt85aDmgUp3Hg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
