soabase/exhibitor

S3 backup directory is named only with the prefix

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bfleming-ciena commented

I need some help. I named my backup prefix "backup-". Inside my S3 bucket, all I see is a directory named "backup-" and it contains one file.

Is this normal? And also what am I suppose to do with this backup file anyway? Is it only for exhibitor, or do I need to do something with it for recovery?? And am I expecting only one directory, or multiple directories??

Randgalt commented

The Exhibitor backup feature is documented here: https://github.com/Netflix/exhibitor/wiki/Restore-UI

On January 28, 2015 at 5:28:48 PM, bfleming (notifications@github.com) wrote:

I need some help. I named my backup prefix "backup-". Inside my S3 bucket, all I see is a directory named "backup-" and it contains one file.

Is this normal? And also what am I suppose to do with this backup file anyway? Is it only for exhibitor, or do I need to do something with it for recovery?? And am I expecting only one directory, or multiple directories??

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bfleming-ciena commented

:(, That doesn't explain my observation about the prefix. The docs you refer to me say nothing about what I should expect to see in my S3 bucket. Do I expect to see a bunch of directories of the form:

-
-

Thanks

Randgalt commented

What do you set for the Backup configuration? It depends how often you have backups set for. Does the backup UI show any backups?

bfleming-ciena commented

I tried every 60000 backup period, the rest are default. I made recent just to see if the S3 directory is created.

If I click new index, I get a single dialog telling me the logs will be added to the index, and then I see a new entry in the UI.

exhibitor-1422487524113 01/28/2015-23:07 01/28/2015-23:08 7

Which I can open.

So I guess it's working as expected? I'm very sorry for bringing up a question that I guess is obvious. I just see in the UI what is termed an "S3 Key Prefix", and the directory created is only the prefix portion. I expected to see something of the form -, and not just .

But if it's working despite the name of the key in the bucket then great.

Randgalt commented

If there's ZK no activity then no files are created.