[rabbitmq-discuss] Configuration Loss

[Francesco Mazzoli]

At Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:20:11 -0600,
Mitsuo Yazawa wrote:
> Hi Rabbitmq team,
> 
>     I had a complete system configured, all was working perfectly between
>     server and its nodes.
>     but our rabbitmq server crashed, I ran all the updates possible to the
>     server, and for some weird reason, our configuration in the server
>     configured in web ui was lost.
> 
>     my questions are, how could this happened?
>     is there a way we can backup all this configuration and deploy it faster
>     in case it happens again?
>     were to look at, when this happens, to see what went wrong?
>     how to prevent this anomaly?
>      
>     I tried to replicate the issue, with no success. but still, we want to be
>     prepared for this situation in the future.

What do you mean with "configuration"?  The configuration described here
http://www.rabbitmq.com/configure.html is in a user-created file, so that won't
be affected by server crashes.

If you mean that you lost all the non-durable resources (e.g. queues), there
isn't much you can do about that apart from having the creation process
automated by some code, which is usually the case - instead of creating them
manually with the management plugin.

You can also export the definition as Alvaro said, but in my opinion that's
quite a brittle solution.

--
Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt