UPDATE:

The developers have a reproducible case now, and we are working on a fix.
The data does actually persist to disk, but in an unaddressable way. It is
recoverable using the `influx_inspect export` tool.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are two outstanding bugs with the ALTER RETENTION POLICY statement
> that can lead to unexpected alterations, and in some cases, lost data.
>
> https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/5878
> When altering a retention policy, the system may continue issuing 204
> responses to writes, but the writes are not successfully persisted to disk.
>
> The corrective action is to alter the retention policy back to the precise
> original syntax and settings. Writes should again persist.
>
> **If you have a reproducible case for this issue, please let us know. We
> are still trying to recreate the issue on our test machines.
>
> https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/7150
> When altering a retention policy, the SHARD DURATION may be reset to "24h"
> unless otherwise specified. This is not the intended behavior, as any
> unspecified parameters should remain unchanged.
>
> The workaround is to always issue every parameter in the ALTER statement,
> even those that don't change.
>
>
> --
> Sean Beckett
> Director of Support and Professional Services
> InfluxDB
>



-- 
Sean Beckett
Director of Support and Professional Services
InfluxDB

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