archive changes reference

yb-voyager archive changes

The archive changes command limits the disk space used by the locally queued CDC events. After the changes from the local queue are applied on the target YugabyteDB database (and source-replica database), they are eligible for deletion.

You can either choose to delete the segments or archive them to a separate location.

Syntax

Usage: yb-voyager archive changes [ <arguments> ... ]

Arguments

The following table lists the valid CLI flags and parameters for archive changes command.

When run at the same time, flags take precedence over configuration flag settings.

CLI flag
Config file parameter Description
--fs-utilization-threshold
archive-changes:
  fs-utilization-threshold:
Disk use threshold (in percent) for the export directory. Used only with --policy delete.
Default: 70
--policy
archive-changes:
  policy:
Specifies how to handle processed segments: delete or archive.
--archive-dir
archive-changes:
  archive-dir: 
Path to an existing directory to copy processed segments into before they are removed from the export directory.
Required when policy is archive.
-e, --export-dir
export-dir:
Path to the export directory. This directory is a workspace used to store exported schema DDL files, export data files, migration state, and a log file.
--send-diagnostics
send-diagnostics:
Enable or disable sending diagnostics information to Yugabyte.
Default: true
Accepted parameters: true, false, yes, no, 0, 1
-l, --log-level
log-level:
Log level for yb-voyager.
Accepted values: trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic
Default: info
-h, --help Command line help for archive changes.
-y, --yes Answer yes to all prompts during migration.
Default: false
-c, --config-file Path to a configuration file.

Examples

Configuration file:

yb-voyager archive changes --config-file <path-to-config-file>

CLI:

Example to delete changes without archiving them to another destination is as follows:

yb-voyager archive changes --export-dir /dir/export-dir --policy delete

Example to archive changes from the export directory to another destination is as follows:

yb-voyager archive changes --export-dir /dir/export-dir --policy archive --archive-dir /dir/archive-dir