From 730e4a719fa72e074e0866dcb76ea70e31273abc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aliaksandr Valialkin Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 21:32:36 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md: clarify `Replication` section --- docs/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md b/docs/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md index c221050193..cca34ca2fb 100644 --- a/docs/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md +++ b/docs/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.md @@ -1006,15 +1006,12 @@ for data with timestamps close to the current time. ### Replication -Single-node VictoriaMetrics relies on replicated durable persistent storage such as [Google Cloud disks](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#pdspecs) -or [Amazon EBS](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/). It is also recommended making periodic backups, -since [replication doesn't save from disaster](https://medium.com/@valyala/speeding-up-backups-for-big-time-series-databases-533c1a927883). -See [backup docs](#backups) for details. +Single-node VictoriaMetrics doesn't support application-level replication. Use cluster version instead. +See [these docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/cluster/README.md#replication-and-data-safety) for details. -Cluster version of VictoriaMetrics supports replication. See [these docs](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/cluster/README.md#replication-and-data-safety) -for details. +Storage-level replication may be offloaded to durable persistent storage such as [Google Cloud disks](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#pdspecs). -See also [high availability docs](#high-availability) and [docs about cluster version of VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/cluster/README.md). +See also [high availability docs](#high-availability) and [backup docs](#backups). ### Backups