The Replication Service handles the transfer of data to a Chronopolis Node. It does this by querying the Ingest Server in order to discover the collections it needs to process and transfer to preservation storage. Once this is complete, it runs an initial audit on an ACE AM server local to the Chronopolis Node.
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Installation
Prereqs
- ACE AM - The replication service will need to send requests to an ACE AM web application in order to register collections
- rsync - Transfers are done using rsync
- SSH key exchange - ssh is used for authentication so keys must be exchanged to any nodes planning on distributing content so that file transfers can occur
- Preservation Storage - The replication service pulls from the ingest server directly to your preservation area on a POSIX file system. We may expand this In the future, but for now, it is only on local disk.
RPM
Download and install the latest rpm
Running
Running can be done with the provided init scripts
- EL6: service replicationd start
- EL7: systemctl start replicationd
Installation Notes
RHEL6 Installed Files
/etc/init.d/replicationd /usr/local/chronopolis/replication /usr/local/chronopolis/replication/application.yml /usr/local/chronopolis/replication/replicationd.jar
RHEL7 Installed Files
/usr/lib/systemd/system/replicationd.service /usr/local/chronopolis/replication /usr/local/chronopolis/replication/application.yml /usr/local/chronopolis/replication/replicationd-prepare /usr/local/chronopolis/replication/replicationd.jar
Preserved Files
As part of the install process by yum, the following files will not be overwritten
- /usr/local/chronopolis/replication/application.yml
User Creation
A service account is also needed as part of the install process who can write to /var/log/chronopolis and the preservation storage defined in the configuration. This is no longer handled by the rpm installation process and must be done manually. By default, the init scripts will look for a chronopolis
user, and if it is not found fail. These can be updated in the following places:
- EL6: /etc/init.d/replicationd
- EL7: /usr/lib/systemd/system/replicationd.service
Configuration
The replicationd service reads the configuration file in /usr/local/chronopolis/replication/application.yml
rsync configuration SINCE 3.0.0
The replication service now has the ability to create multiple rsyncs when transferring a single bag. This is done with the chron.rsync
properties. Currently there are two rsync profiles which can be chosen from, SINGLE
and CHUNKED
.
- Choosing
SINGLE
will run the standard flow which runs only one rsync per Bag. - Choosing
CHUNKED
will run a newer rsync flow which will query the Ingest Server for all files in a Bag, and create batches of transfers to work on. Currently this is done in a naive manner by chunking ~10% of the given file listing, which can be inefficient for smaller collections. In addition, thechron.maxFileTransfers
property may take some experimentation to find the best value for optimizing saturation of the network link.
The arguments passed to rsync should be edited with care, as the defaults should work for all workflows. In recent versions of rsync, commas have been introduced into the output and can be disabled with --no-human-readable
.
SMTP Configuration
The replication service sends email to the smtp.to
when a bag fails to replicate. The chron.node
value is used in order to add information to the title of the email about which node the email came from.
In the event an email is wanted for all replications, chron.smtp.send-on-success
can be set to true in order to trigger emails for successful replications as well. If no email is wanted, stmp.send
can be set to false.
Additional Notes on Configuration
- The replication.cron timer sets how often the replication-shell queries the ingest-server for active replications. It uses a cron style formatting:
- See http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger for an overview of the formatting used
0 0 * * * *
: The default timer, at the top of every hour0 */1 * * * *
: A faster timer, once per minute
- The development profile can be used for testing configuration options. It remains in the foreground and has a limited set of commands.
- The mail configuration (smtp) is set to send by default.
- If you don't want to send mail, or have a server which does not have smtp capabilities you can turn it off by setting smtp.send: false
- If the storage is not set up correctly, the replicationd process will not run. This includes existence, and r/w/e permissions
Errors
This will be filled out as we experience problems. Check /var/log/chronopolis/replication.log
to see if there are any stack traces.