pmempool-sync(1)

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NAME

6       pmempool-sync - Synchronize replicas or their parts within a pool set.
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SYNOPSIS

9              pmempool sync [options] <poolset_file>
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11       NOTE: Only the pool set file used to create the pool should be used for
12       syncing the pool.
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DESCRIPTION

15       The pmempool sync command synchronizes data between replicas  within  a
16       pool set.  It checks if metadata of all replicas in a pool set are con‐
17       sistent, i.e. all parts are healthy, and if any of  them  is  not,  the
18       corrupted  or missing parts are recreated and filled with data from one
19       of the healthy replicas.  Currently synchronizing data is allowed  only
20       for pmemobj pools (see libpmemobj(7)).
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22       If  a  pool  set  has  the option SINGLEHDR or NOHDRS (see poolset(5)),
23       pmempool sync command has limited capability of checking its  metadata.
24       This  is  due  to limited or no, respectively, internal metadata at the
25       beginning of pool set parts in every replica when either of the options
26       is used.  In that cases, only missing parts or the ones which cannot be
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29   Available options:
30       -b, --bad-blocks
31              Fix bad blocks - it causes creating or reading special  recovery
32              files.   When  bad  blocks  are detected, special recovery files
33              have to be created in order to fix them safely.  A separate  re‐
34              covery  file is created for each part of the pool.  The recovery
35              files are created in the same directory where the  poolset  file
36              is located using the following name pattern: <poolset-file-name>
37              _r <replica-number> _p <part-number> _badblocks.txt These recov‐
38              ery  files  are automatically removed if the sync operation fin‐
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41              If the last sync operation was interrupted and not finished cor‐
42              rectly  (eg.  the application crashed) and the bad blocks fixing
43              procedure was in progress, the bad block recovery files  may  be
44              left  over.  In such case bad blocks might have been cleared and
45              zeroed, but the correct data from these blocks was not recovered
46              (not  copied from a healthy replica), so the recovery files MUST
47              NOT be deleted manually, because it would  cause  a  data  loss.
48              Pmempool-sync  should be run again with the `-b' option set.  It
49              will finish the previously interrupted sync operation  and  copy
50              correct  data to zeroed bad blocks using the left-over bad block
51              recovery files (the bad blocks will be read from the  saved  re‐
52              covery files).  Pmempool will delete the recovery files automat‐
53              ically at the end of the sync operation.
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55              Using this option may have limitations depending on the  operat‐
56              ing system.  For details see description of the CHECK_BAD_BLOCKS
57              feature in pmempool-feature(1).
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59       -d, --dry-run
60              Enable dry run mode.  In this mode no changes are applied,  only
61              check for viability of synchronization.
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66       -h, --help
67              Display help message and exit.
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