This week i was asked to test a riak backup for a client, riak in terms of administration is really easy, backup means making a tarball with the following:
Thats sounds simple enough and to be honest it is. But all backups have to be tested and that is something that it can be as easy as just "tar tvfz" or bringing up a second cluster with the backup data, there are some logical questions that come to mind here, i will point out some but there are probably more.
Now, im not an expert in Riak, i just touched it 3 days ago but for this specific scenario i am pretty confident.
lets say that you have a 2 node cluster which means 2 machines, the database consists in 2 different places right ? -right but you can bring 2 nodes up using one server. To do that you have to compile riak or else you will have one global configuration file and you wont be able to have 2 nodes in the same host.
to compile riak you will need the following packages with their dependences:
g++,make,gcc, erlang, erlang-dev, git
To compile , untar the downloaded source and type "make rel", this will give you a directory called rel , inside there you will find a directory called riak, you may copy that to riak1,riak2,riak-test,riak-dev etc, this directory has its own executables , config files and bitcask directories so it means that you can bring as many riaks up as your hardware allows.
Which bring us to the next question, lets assume that you have a 2 node single host cluster ready for startup, edit the 2 config files (app-config, vm.args)and fix the ips and the ports for each node BUT pay attention in vm.args to set the parameter -setcookie right, by right i mean different name from the production and common between the 2 test nodes. setcookie value will allow or not the cluster to connect with another cluster so pay attention there.
now untar the backups into the new nodes: /root/riak-1.4.0/rel/riak1/data/bitcask for node1 and /root/riak-1.4.0/rel/riak2/data/bitcask for node2 and start riak, and now stop it, we have to reip the nodes, im not sure about this but i think that there are references into the data about the original node name,
to change that you must run : riak-admin reip <old_nodename> <new_nodename> and you started riak first to create some files called ring files, reip will change those files along with everything else needed and now you may start your nodes , join these 2 and play arround (if you dont know how , refer to riak site their documentation is very good)
to test riak use curl, in my tests i inserted data in both nodes on my wannabe production cluster and i did queries after i restored in known documents, riak documentation has quite some examples, if i put them here they would be copy paste from there.
i am by no chance a riak expert and if i did something wrong feel free to comment.
Thanks for reading
-Vasilis
- Bitcask data:
/var/lib/riak/bitcask - LevelDB data:
/var/lib/riak/leveldb - Ring data:
/var/lib/riak/ring - Configuration:
/etc/riak
Thats sounds simple enough and to be honest it is. But all backups have to be tested and that is something that it can be as easy as just "tar tvfz" or bringing up a second cluster with the backup data, there are some logical questions that come to mind here, i will point out some but there are probably more.
- A 2 node cluster means that you need 2 nodes to restore ?
- If i bring the cluster up who says that it wont join my primary cluster ?
- How can i test that the backup worked ?
Now, im not an expert in Riak, i just touched it 3 days ago but for this specific scenario i am pretty confident.
lets say that you have a 2 node cluster which means 2 machines, the database consists in 2 different places right ? -right but you can bring 2 nodes up using one server. To do that you have to compile riak or else you will have one global configuration file and you wont be able to have 2 nodes in the same host.
to compile riak you will need the following packages with their dependences:
g++,make,gcc, erlang, erlang-dev, git
To compile , untar the downloaded source and type "make rel", this will give you a directory called rel , inside there you will find a directory called riak, you may copy that to riak1,riak2,riak-test,riak-dev etc, this directory has its own executables , config files and bitcask directories so it means that you can bring as many riaks up as your hardware allows.
Which bring us to the next question, lets assume that you have a 2 node single host cluster ready for startup, edit the 2 config files (app-config, vm.args)and fix the ips and the ports for each node BUT pay attention in vm.args to set the parameter -setcookie right, by right i mean different name from the production and common between the 2 test nodes. setcookie value will allow or not the cluster to connect with another cluster so pay attention there.
now untar the backups into the new nodes: /root/riak-1.4.0/rel/riak1/data/bitcask for node1 and /root/riak-1.4.0/rel/riak2/data/bitcask for node2 and start riak, and now stop it, we have to reip the nodes, im not sure about this but i think that there are references into the data about the original node name,
to change that you must run : riak-admin reip <old_nodename> <new_nodename> and you started riak first to create some files called ring files, reip will change those files along with everything else needed and now you may start your nodes , join these 2 and play arround (if you dont know how , refer to riak site their documentation is very good)
to test riak use curl, in my tests i inserted data in both nodes on my wannabe production cluster and i did queries after i restored in known documents, riak documentation has quite some examples, if i put them here they would be copy paste from there.
i am by no chance a riak expert and if i did something wrong feel free to comment.
Thanks for reading
-Vasilis
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