Hey Sean, thanks for the answer. I know about the backup docs but they are not clear enough for me. I come from MySQL backups so its a bit confusing for me.
Scenario: My dedicated server burns down, I only have backups and I am planning to restore them on a new server. 1. Does metastore backup continues queries as well? Or I will need to re-create them? 2. Lets say it took me 1 hour to setup the new server. After restoring I insert all the missing data for the 1 hour the DB was down. Will CQ process the data correctly since its technically from the past? 3. In the above scenario do I need to do anything else to get a new server with 1:1 data as the old one except from the commands below? S1: influxd backup /path/to/metadata S1: influxd backup -database mydatabase /path/to/backup S2: influxd restore /tmp/backup S2: influxd restore -database mydatabase /tmp/backup Thanks On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: > Backups are documented here: http://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/ > administration/backup_and_restore/ > > They are always full backups, so there's nothing more complex to the > backup strategy than what you describe. Backups can be run against a live > instance. > > > Also what stops me from doing rsync on the directories used by InfluxDB? > > Race conditions. Memory and files are changing all the time. Rsync doesn't > grab a cohesive snapshot of the full directory, it merely grabs the latest > version of each file serially. There is very little chance that grabbing > files serially will produce a consistent backup unless the cluster is under > extremely low load. Even then, I think it's unlikely restoring an rsync'd > copy would work more than half the time. > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey, I am interested using InfluxDB in production but cant afford the >> Enterprise/Cloud products. >> >> So I am interested in ways to ensure I wont lose data when going live. >> >> What are you doing regarding backups? Care to share your scripts? >> >> >> Is it as basic as this? >> >> S1: influxd backup /path/to/metadata >> S1: influxd backup -database mydatabase /path/to/backup >> S2: influxd restore /tmp/backup >> S2: influxd restore -database mydatabase /tmp/backup >> >> >> Also what stops me from doing rsync on the directories used by InfluxDB? >> I could keep a second server in sync (without the process running) and if >> something happens to master I could simply do "service start influxdb" on >> the second server to get up and running without doing any backup restores. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> 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/ms >> gid/influxdb/f4e45893-3a7a-4a19-85ff-26096a9ed706%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Sean Beckett > Director of Support and Professional Services > InfluxDB > > -- > Remember to include the InfluxDB version number with all issue reports > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "InfluxDB" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/influxdb/v5Rb79jsthQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/CALGqCvNWyC0SRD3%2BQj8YEkzsAer1neBhRapersXm8t8Q > U00jkg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CALGqCvNWyC0SRD3%2BQj8YEkzsAer1neBhRapersXm8t8QU00jkg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CACMxjo4J2zA3ZS0fu8a2bcck0HzyjRV%2BAPbqFbpKBYGwyJ7B1Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
