The archive utilities manage the internal format of a snapshot, which is a
tar file with the following contents:
meta.json - JSON-encoded snapshot metadata from Raft
state.bin - Encoded snapshot data from Raft
SHA256SUMS - SHA-256 sums of the above two files
The integrity information is automatically created and checked, and a failure
there just looks like an error to the caller.
snapshot manages the interactions between Nomad and Raft in order to take
and restore snapshots for disaster recovery. The internal format of a
snapshot is simply a tar file, as described in archive.go.
type Snapshot struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Snapshot is a structure that holds state about a temporary file that is used
to hold a snapshot. By using an intermediate file we avoid holding everything
in memory.
New takes a state snapshot of the given Raft instance into a temporary file
and returns an object that gives access to the file as an io.Reader. You must
arrange to call Close() on the returned object or else you will leak a
temporary file.
Close closes the snapshot and removes any temporary storage associated with
it. You must arrange to call this whenever NewSnapshot() has been called
successfully. This is safe to call on a nil snapshot.