Run asbackup from each cluster node

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I’m thinking about what’s the best way to setup daily backups for our Aerospike cluster. Mainly deciding between running asbackup on the cluster nodes itself or a separate backup node.

Let’s say we have a 10 node cluster. Each of those nodes will have a daily cron job to run asbackup with --node-list option with only it’s IP. The backup files are stored in a directory in attached EBS, and once asbackup is done, the files are uploaded to S3.

Pros:

  • Save on bandwidth and instance cost by running backup on node itself instead of separate backup node
  • Faster backup vs running backup on separate backup node
  • Easier setup

Cons:

  • Performance of cluster may be degraded during backup
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That seems like a sound plan. The performance of the cluster may not necessarily be degraded and not necessarily more than when doing this from a single node.

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You could also throttle asbackup while running this on all nodes if you find it takes too much resources.