From ccd8b7a003770c75622ace28c317f35452441e44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aliaksandr Valialkin Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:17:56 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: mention how to recover from broken parts due to disk errors Updates https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/76 --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5f28b7495..23a13ca61 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -502,6 +502,11 @@ There is [an official Grafana dashboard for single-node VictoriaMetrics](https:/ Another option is to increase `-memory.allowedPercent` command-line flag value. Be careful with this option, since too big value for `-memory.allowedPercent` may result in high I/O usage. +* If VictoriaMetrics doesn't work because of certain parts are corrupted due to disk errors, + then just remove directoreis with broken parts. This will recover VictoriaMetrics at the cost + of data loss stored in the broken parts. In the future `vmrecover` tool will be created + for automatic recovering from such errors. + ## Contacts