[rabbitmq-discuss] How to create a rabbitmq cluster using existing application without losing existing data?

[Simon MacMullen]

On 12/12/2013 16:34, Joshua Lim wrote:
> How about the cluster_nodes configuration field on existing machine?  I 
> left it as {cluster_nodes, {['rabbit at existing-machine', 
> 'rabbit at new-machine'], disc}}

That field will only even be read when the node in question comes up
with a completely blank database (i.e. first start, or after
'rabbitmqctl reset'). That presumably never applies to the existing
machine, so it doesn't matter what you have there.

Cheers, Simon