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Local Gateway

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Local Gateway

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The local gateway allows for recovery of the full cluster state and indices from the local storage of each node, and does not require a common node level shared storage.

Note, different from shared gateway types, the persistency to the local gateway is not done in an async manner. Once an operation is performed, the data is there for the local gateway to recover it in case of full cluster failure.

It is important to configure the gateway.recover_after_nodes setting to include most of the expected nodes to be started after a full cluster restart. This will insure that the latest cluster state is recovered. For example:

gateway:
    recover_after_nodes: 1
    recover_after_time: 5m
    expected_nodes: 2

Dangling indices

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When a node joins the cluster, any shards/indices stored in its local data/ directory which do not already exist in the cluster will be imported into the cluster by default. This functionality has two purposes:

  1. If a new master node is started which is unaware of the other indices in the cluster, adding the old nodes will cause the old indices to be imported, instead of being deleted.
  2. An old index can be added to an existing cluster by copying it to the data/ directory of a new node, starting the node and letting it join the cluster. Once the index has been replicated to other nodes in the cluster, the new node can be shut down and removed.

The import of dangling indices can be controlled with the gateway.local.auto_import_dangled which accepts:

yes

Import dangling indices into the cluster (default).

close

Import dangling indices into the cluster state, but leave them closed.

no

Delete dangling indices after gateway.local.dangling_timeout, which defaults to 2 hours.

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