@@ -31,6 +31,37 @@ deletes items based on regexes over the content. # edit the awesome hard-coded bury and delete rules beanstalk-cleanup.rb host:11300 +### beanstalk-export.rb + +beanstalk-export.rb will export all of the jobs from a server. You +can use it to perform a server upgrade, or migrate all of the jobs +from one server another. + +You *should* put the server in draining mode (send signal `USR1`) +before starting this to ensure new jobs aren't getting queued. You +may also consider shutting down your workers since it may otherwise +cause jobs to be executed prematurely. + +Note that the following job attributes are preserved: + +* tube +* delay +* priority +* ttr +* body + +Anything else (e.g. buried status or number of failures) is lost in +translation. + + usage: beanstalk-export.rb host:11300 > export.yml + +### beanstalk-import.rb + +beanstalk-import.rb is a tool to complement to beanstalk-export.rb by +allowing the export to be loaded into another server. + + usage: beanstalk-import.rb export.yml host:11300 + ## Nagios Monitoring Scripts ### beanstalk-jobs.rb @@ -61,4 +92,4 @@ All min and max values are required and are interpreted as floats. The rates are expressed as units per second. **Note**: this only works for stats in the default stat values right now. -More work is needed to support tube specific stats. \ No newline at end of file +More work is needed to support tube specific stats. README.markdown bd2ea048a8544589991d2511bd3a805018696fb7 Dustin Sallings dustin@spy.net http://github.com/dustin/beanstalk-tools/commit/c1d37b03a6578f5c654f7cf683e1843543c4dc33 c1d37b03a6578f5c654f7cf683e1843543c4dc33 2009-01-14T20:24:32-08:00 2009-01-14T20:24:32-08:00 Updated the readme for export/import. 36188084ee98ce835cee601b27636eb705a47580 Dustin Sallings dustin@spy.net