[rabbitmq-discuss] Clustering

[Ben Hood]

Jason,

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
<jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> While replication would be helpful, an alternate stop gap would be the
> ability to use the message queue log off the dead node and populate
> the messages back into the cluster on command. More often than not, we
> can stand a bit of a delay in the processing of the messages in the
> event of the loss of a node (while we get the node back up). However,
> if it looks like the node is going to be down for awhile (and
> providing the message log is on some sort of network storage like NFS
> or iSCSI), we may need to get the messages re-populated back into the
> cluster while the dead node gets rebuilt.

Yes, something along those lines is what we recommend to replay the
message journal.

Ben