[rabbitmq-discuss] Recovery and Upgrade Path

Thu Jun 4 13:29:50 BST 2009

Estaban,

Hey there.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Steve Weaver <weaveinator at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all -
> Have a two part question on RabbitMq.  First I have RabbitMq running on both
> Windows Server and RHE server and was wondering what is the best way to go
> about recovery if the server itself fails or RabbitMq needs a restart.  I'm
> messing around with creating a windows service that starts it for the
> windows box but was wondering what the best practice is for both windows and
> linux.

RabbitMQ can already run as a Windows service; if you want to use that
to manage restarts, then that seems perfectly reaosnable to me.

I would not go so far as to say there is 'best practice' in these
cases.  How often might you need to restart and why?  Do you need to
recover data from disk?  Will you be running a cluster or just one
node?  How much automation do you need?

Let folks know, and some people might have some war stories and
recommendations that help ;-)

> Next - we are talking about upgrading rabbitmq so is that a just a matter of
> unistalling/reinstalling or can I just rebuild over the top of the older
> version.  I'm thinking more the point is for the RHE server as I'm still
> getting the hang of the command line stuff (linux noob for the most part) so
> that may just be clearing out the directory and dropping / compiling the new
> version there.

Are you asking: "how can I migrate my old configuration to a new install"?

alexis

> Thanks very much for any help or insight!
> Estaban
>
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