Hello, from the article you linked, older blocks are only snapshotted as hardlinks while open blocks are dumped. Maybe you didn't copy the hardlinks correctly? check the size of your folder
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:29 PM KARIM MANAOUIL <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am doing analysis of a Kubernetes cluster and because I don't have > permanent access to it, I thought about this idea of importing Prometheus > TSDB and analyze the data using a local Prometheus instance. I succeeded to > do that using snapshots as told here > <https://www.robustperception.io/taking-snapshots-of-prometheus-data>. I > dumped the snapshot into my local machine, spawned up a Prometheus > container setting tsdb.path to the snapshot's path and it worked great, I > can see the old data and perform queries. One night after, I woke up, > uncompressed the snapshot again and launched a fresh new Prometheus > instance but unfortunately now I can't see the old data. I have no idea why. > > The documentation <https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/1.8/storage/> > says something about heap-size and memory-chunks but that's doesn't work > and arguments are invalid when I tried them. > > I noticed after the server is launched, the head is garbage collected and > maybe this is the reason but honestly I have no idea. > > So please is there anyway to correct this issue and be able to use my old > restored snapshot ? > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/de43a1a9-d2d9-4c4a-ae1f-e16850a4da54%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/de43a1a9-d2d9-4c4a-ae1f-e16850a4da54%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CALnV8WjfVXQVSWRjKNVW7YSLsh3pzBDT%2BsFz%3DdxumPGKk5bc9A%40mail.gmail.com.
