On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Dmitriy Akulov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > > Yes, CQs are part of the metastore. They will be restored. > > 1. 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? > > No. CQs only operate on time windows relative to now. You need to use the INTO clause to explicitly backfill data during the outage: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.0/query_language/data_exploration/#downsample-data > > 1. 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? > > The commands below will fully recreate S2 with a full complete copy of S1's data at the time of the backup. The configuration files are not part of the backup, so those must be manually synchronized. > > 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.c >> om/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/to >> pic/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/ms >> gid/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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/influxdb/CACMxjo4J2zA3ZS0fu8a2bcck0HzyjRV%2BAPbqFbpKBYGwyJ7B1Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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 the Google Groups "InfluxDB" group. 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