[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ clustering and node failure recovery strategies

[Alexandru Scvorţov]

> Can we bring up a new VM with a new RabbitMQ node 
> installed with the same hostname and Rabbit nodename and have it join the old 
> cluster? 

Yes.

> Would that work? Or would it fail because the new node had an empty 
> mnesia db and did not have the durable queues in it that the other nodes in the 
> clustered expected?

I've just tried it and it doesn't seem to be a problem.

Also, see the other messages in this thread.

Alex

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 07:04:51AM -0700, Dave Greggory wrote:
> When a node in a cluster goes down hard (let's say HDD failure), how would you 
> recommend recovering from that situation (since the durable queues cannot be 
> re-created in another node)? Can we bring up a new VM with a new RabbitMQ node 
> installed with the same hostname and Rabbit nodename and have it join the old 
> cluster? Would that work? Or would it fail because the new node had an empty 
> mnesia db and did not have the durable queues in it that the other nodes in the 
> clustered expected?
> 
> 
> 
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