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  1. Couchbase Documentation
  2. DOC-11837

[CBBS] Clarify information around multiple backup service nodes

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    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Major
    • Trinity
    • 7.2, Trinity
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      What is the problem?
      We recently had a customer issue where they were running three backup service nodes to do a cloud backup, each with a staging directory on a local drive. Because of the large number of previous backups, populating the staging directory took a long time which causing task overlap. Multiple tasks can run at once (MB-60676) so the user got a confusing error message about lockfiles.

      What is the solution?
      Until MB-60676 is fixed we should guide customers towards using one backup node. I don't think we should be too pushy here as multiple backup nodes are legitimate for resiliency reasons and if you want to take multiple backups at once (e.g. you have a repo per bucket) but in general customers should consider carefully whether it applies in their case before using multiple backup service nodes.

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            gary.gray Gary Gray
            Matt.Hall Matt Hall
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