Data Migration Configuration File Overview
This document gives an overview of configuration files of DM (Data Migration).
DM process configuration files
dm-master.toml: The configuration file of running the DM-master process, including the topology information and the logs of the DM-master. For more details, refer to DM-master Configuration File.dm-worker.toml: The configuration file of running the DM-worker process, including the topology information and the logs of the DM-worker. For more details, refer to DM-worker Configuration File.source.yaml: The configuration of the upstream database such as MySQL and MariaDB. For more details, refer to Upstream Database Configuration File.
DM migration task configuration
Data migration task creation
You can take the following steps to create a data migration task:
- Load the data source configuration into the DM cluster using dmctl.
- Refer to the description in the Task Configuration Guide and create the configuration file
your_task.yaml. - Create the data migration task using dmctl.
Important concepts
This section shows description of some important concepts.
| Concept | Description | Configuration File |
|---|---|---|
source-id | Uniquely represents a MySQL or MariaDB instance, or a migration group with the primary-secondary structure. The maximum length of source-id is 32. | source_id of source.yaml;source-id of task.yaml |
| DM-master ID | Uniquely represents a DM-master (by the master-addr parameter of dm-master.toml) | master-addr of dm-master.toml |
| DM-worker ID | Uniquely represents a DM-worker (by the worker-addr parameter of dm-worker.toml) | worker-addr of dm-worker.toml |
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