Using the ClickHouse Data Migration Tool

Prerequisites

• The ClickHouse and Zookeeper services are running properly. The ClickHouseServer instances on the source and destination nodes are normal.
• The destination node has the data table to be migrated and the table is a partitioned MergeTree table.
• Before creating a migration task, ensure that all tasks for writing data to a table to be migrated have been stopped. After the task is started, you can only query the table to be migrated and cannot write data to or delete data from the table. Otherwise, data may be inconsistent before and after the migration.
• If automatic balancing is enabled, only a partitioned ReplicatedMergeTree table is migrated, and the partitioned table must have a corresponding distributed table.
• The ClickHouse data directory on the destination node has sufficient space.

Procedure

1. Log in to Manager and choose Cluster > Services > ClickHouse > Data Migration. On the displayed page, click Add Task.

   

   

   • The number of created migration tasks is limited. By default, a maximum of 20 migration tasks can be created. You can modify the number of migration tasks allowed by modifying the max_migration_task_number configuration item on the ClickHouse configuration page of Manager. A migration task occupies a certain number of Znodes on ZooKeeper. Therefore, you are not advised to set the maximum number of migration tasks allowed to a large value.
   • If the number of existing migration tasks exceeds the upper limit, no more migration tasks can be created. The system automatically deletes the earliest migration tasks that have been successfully executed. If no historical migration task is successfully executed, perform 10 based on the site requirements and manually delete historical migration tasks.

2. On the page for creating a migration task, set the migration task parameters. For details, see Table 1. After configuring the parameters, click Next. If Automatic balancing is not enabled, go to 3. If Automatic balancing is enabled, go to 5.

   

   Table 1 Migration task parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Task Name	Enter a specific task name. The value can contain 1 to 50 characters, including letters, digits, and underscores (_), and cannot be the same as that of an existing migration task.
   Automatic balancing	Choose whether to enable Automatic balancing. If it is enabled, the system automatically selects the source and destination nodes to ensure that data in partitioned ReplicatedMergeTree tables corresponding to the distributed tables is evenly distributed on each node in the cluster. If it is not enabled, you need to manually select the source and destination nodes.
   Task Type	Scheduled Task: When the scheduled task is selected, you can set Started to specify a time point later than the current time to execute the task. Immediate task: The task is executed immediately after it is started.
   Started	Set this parameter when Task Type is set to Scheduled Task. The valid value is a time point within 90 days from now.
   Maximum Bandwidth	Bandwidth upper limit of each ClickHouseServer node. The value ranges from 1 MB/s to 10,000 MB/s. In automatic balancing scenarios, increase the bandwidth as much as possible. Flow control is disabled by default.
   Data Amount Migrated	Percentage of the amount of data migrated in each table to the total amount of data in the table. The value ranges from 0 to 100%. If this parameter is left blank, the value is set to 50% by default. This parameter is valid only when Automatic balancing is disabled.

3. On the Select Node page, select the data table to be migrated from the list on the left and click OK. In the list on the right, select the source node of the selected data table and click Next.

   

   

   After a node is selected, other nodes that are replicas of the selected node are automatically selected as the source nodes.

4. On the Select Data Table page, select the host name of the destination node and click Next.
   

   

   The destination node must be different from the source nodes. The selected source nodes are not displayed on the page.

5. Confirm the task information and click Submit.

   The data migration tool automatically calculates the partitions to be migrated based on the size of the data table to be migrated and the value of Data Amount Migrated set on the Add Task page.

   

6. After the migration task is submitted, click Start in the Operation column. If the task is an immediate task, the task starts to be executed. If the task is a scheduled task, the countdown starts.

   

7. During the migration task execution, you can click Cancel to cancel the migration task. If the migration task is canceled, the migrated data on the destination node will not be rolled back.
   

   After a task with automatic balancing enabled is canceled, it will not stop immediately. It will stop after the table migration is complete. After a task with automatic balancing disabled is canceled, the task stops immediately. After the task stops, a partition may have been migrated to the destination node, but it is not deleted from the source node. In this case, duplicate data exists. Manually check whether the migrated partition still exists on the source node. If it still exists, check that the total data volume of the partition on the destination node is the same as that on the source node, and then delete the partition from the source node.

8. Choose More > Details to view details about the migration task.
9. After the migration is complete, choose More > Results to view the migration result.

   In a non-automatic balancing task, you can view the migrated partitions of each table and the partition migration result. If the partition migration is not finished, the partition has been copied to the destination node but not deleted from the source node because the data volume of the partition on the source node is inconsistent with that of the partition on the destination node. In this case, check whether the data volume of the partition on the source node is consistent with that of the partition on the destination node, and then delete the partition from the source node.

   

10. After the migration is complete, choose More > Delete to delete the directories related to the migration task on ZooKeeper and the destination node.