From b7544c6e7e12967569e91e4497d70b22d2e6ea59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kostas Botsas Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:41:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] screen suggestion for influx_tsm Added a suggestion to run influx_tsm under a screen session to avoid interruptions due to console disconnects. --- cmd/influx_tsm/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/cmd/influx_tsm/README.md b/cmd/influx_tsm/README.md index 20c6dd0976a..c6fba59ce05 100644 --- a/cmd/influx_tsm/README.md +++ b/cmd/influx_tsm/README.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Follow these steps to perform a conversion. * Stop all write-traffic to your InfluxDB system. * Restart the InfluxDB service and wait until all WAL data is flushed to disk -- this has completed when the system responds to queries. This is to ensure all data is present in shards. * Stop the InfluxDB service. It should not be restarted until conversion is complete. -* Run conversion tool. +* Run conversion tool. Depending on the size of the data directory, this might be a lengthy operation. Consider running the conversion tool under a "screen" session to avoid any interruptions. * Unless you ran the conversion tool as the same user as that which runs InfluxDB, then you may need to set the correct read-and-write permissions on the new tsm1 directories. * Restart node and ensure data looks correct. * If everything looks OK, you may then wish to remove or archive the backed-up databases.