minio/docs/batch-jobs

MinIO Batch Job

MinIO Batch jobs is an MinIO object management feature that lets you manage objects at scale. Jobs currently supported by MinIO

• Replicate objects between buckets on multiple sites

Upcoming Jobs

• Copy objects from NAS to MinIO
• Copy objects from HDFS to MinIO

Replication Job

To perform replication via batch jobs, you create a job. The job consists of a job description YAML that describes

• Source location from where the objects must be copied from
• Target location from where the objects must be copied to
• Fine grained filtering is available to pick relevant objects from source to copy from

MinIO batch jobs framework also provides

• Retrying a failed job automatically driven by user input
• Monitoring job progress in real-time
• Send notifications upon completion or failure to user configured target

Following YAML describes the structure of a replication job, each value is documented and self-describing.

replicate:
  apiVersion: v1
  # source of the objects to be replicated
  source:
	type: TYPE # valid values are "minio"
	bucket: BUCKET
	prefix: PREFIX
	# NOTE: if source is remote then target must be "local"
	# endpoint: ENDPOINT
	# credentials:
	#   accessKey: ACCESS-KEY
	#   secretKey: SECRET-KEY
	#   sessionToken: SESSION-TOKEN # Available when rotating credentials are used

  # target where the objects must be replicated
  target:
	type: TYPE # valid values are "minio"
	bucket: BUCKET
	prefix: PREFIX
	# NOTE: if target is remote then source must be "local"
	# endpoint: ENDPOINT
	# credentials:
	#   accessKey: ACCESS-KEY
	#   secretKey: SECRET-KEY
	#   sessionToken: SESSION-TOKEN # Available when rotating credentials are used

  # optional flags based filtering criteria
  # for all source objects
  flags:
	filter:
	  newerThan: "7d" # match objects newer than this value (e.g. 7d10h31s)
	  olderThan: "7d" # match objects older than this value (e.g. 7d10h31s)
	  createdAfter: "date" # match objects created after "date"
	  createdBefore: "date" # match objects created before "date"

	  ## NOTE: tags are not supported when "source" is remote.
	  # tags:
	  #   - key: "name"
	  #     value: "pick*" # match objects with tag 'name', with all values starting with 'pick'

	  ## NOTE: metadata filter not supported when "source" is non MinIO.
	  # metadata:
	  #   - key: "content-type"
	  #     value: "image/*" # match objects with 'content-type', with all values starting with 'image/'

	notify:
	  endpoint: "https://notify.endpoint" # notification endpoint to receive job status events
	  token: "Bearer xxxxx" # optional authentication token for the notification endpoint

	retry:
	  attempts: 10 # number of retries for the job before giving up
	  delay: "500ms" # least amount of delay between each retry

You can create and run multiple 'replication' jobs at a time there are no predefined limits set.

Batch Jobs Terminology

Job

A job is the basic unit of work for MinIO Batch Job. A job is a self describing YAML, once this YAML is submitted and evaluated - MinIO performs the requested actions on each of the objects obtained under the described criteria in job YAML file.

Type

Type describes the job type, such as replicating objects between MinIO sites. Each job performs a single type of operation across all objects that match the job description criteria.

Batch Jobs via Commandline

mc provides 'mc batch' command to create, start and manage submitted jobs.

NAME:
  mc batch - manage batch jobs

USAGE:
  mc batch COMMAND [COMMAND FLAGS | -h] [ARGUMENTS...]

COMMANDS:
  generate  generate a new batch job definition
  start     start a new batch job
  list, ls  list all current batch jobs
  status    summarize job events on MinIO server in real-time
  describe  describe job definition for a job

Generate a job yaml

mc batch generate alias/ replicate

Start the batch job (returns back the JID)

mc batch start alias/ ./replicate.yaml
Successfully start 'replicate' job `E24HH4nNMcgY5taynaPfxu` on '2022-09-26 17:19:06.296974771 -0700 PDT'

List all batch jobs

mc batch list alias/
ID                      TYPE            USER            STARTED
E24HH4nNMcgY5taynaPfxu  replicate       minioadmin      1 minute ago

List all 'replicate' batch jobs

mc batch list alias/ --type replicate
ID                      TYPE            USER            STARTED
E24HH4nNMcgY5taynaPfxu  replicate       minioadmin      1 minute ago

Real-time 'status' for a batch job

mc batch status myminio/ E24HH4nNMcgY5taynaPfxu
●∙∙
Objects:        28766
Versions:       28766
Throughput:     3.0 MiB/s
Transferred:    406 MiB
Elapsed:        2m14.227222868s
CurrObjName:    share/doc/xml-core/examples/foo.xmlcatalogs

'describe' the batch job yaml.

mc batch describe myminio/ E24HH4nNMcgY5taynaPfxu
replicate:
  apiVersion: v1
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