+1 LevelDB backup information is important to us

On Jan 20, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Elias Levy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anyone from Basho care to comment?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Elias Levy <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Also, while LevelDB appears to be largely an append only format, the 
> documentation currently does not recommend live backups, presumably because 
> there are some issues that can crop up if restoring a DB that was not cleanly 
> shutdown.  
> 
> I am guessing those issues are the ones documented as edge cases here: 
> https://github.com/basho/leveldb/wiki/repair-notes
> 
> That said, it looks like as of 1.4 those are largely cleared up, at least 
> from what I gather from that page, and that one must only ensure that data is 
> copied in a certain order and that you run the LevelDB repair algorithm when 
> retiring the files.  
> 
> So is the backup documentation on LevelDB still correct?  Will Basho will 
> enable hot backups on LevelDB backends any time soon?
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Elias Levy <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> How well does Riak Search play with backups?  Can you backup the Riak Search 
> data without bringing the node down?
> 
> The Riak documentation backup page is completely silent on Riak Search and 
> its merge_index backend.
> 
> And looking forward, what is the backup strategy for Yokozuna?  Will it make 
> use of Solr's Replication Handler, or something more lower level?  Will the 
> node need to be offline to backup it up?
> 
> 
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