# "Hot Swap" an active bucket?

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/hot-swap-an-active-bucket/25674>\
**Category:** InfluxDB 2\
**Created:** [July 6, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/hot-swap-an-active-bucket/25674 "2022-07-06T02:44:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![phill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@phill](https://community.influxdata.com/u/phill)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/hot-swap-an-active-bucket/25674/1 "2022-07-06T02:44:36Z")

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**The Setup:** Telegraf is operating at the edge sending measurements to Influxdb OSS. That host needs to go down for several hours of scheduled maintenance.

**The Problem:** Data loss during the downtime.

**The Question:** Can an Influxdb Cloud account be created and Telegraf data re-routed there? Would that require deploying a 2nd Telegraf instance with a config file which points to the Cloud? Then the Cloud and OSS data sets would be merged and de-dup’ed later. Are there other alternatives?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Anaisdg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/anaisdg/32/6401_2.png) [@Anaisdg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Anaisdg)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/hot-swap-an-active-bucket/25674/2 "2022-07-06T21:35:47Z")

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@phill,  
you can easily replicate data from an OSS instance to the Cloud, but not vice versa. See:

> **[Announcing InfluxDB Edge Data Replication: Combining the Power of the Cloud...](https://www.influxdata.com/blog/edge-data-replication/)**
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> Today we’re excited to announce the immediate availability of Edge Data Replication, a solution that unifies time series data processing between edge and cloud environments.

However, you can use the to() function if your data load isn’t that high to write data from Cloud to OSS if you expose your OSS instance. What are you running your OSS instance on?

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**Author:** ![phill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@phill](https://community.influxdata.com/u/phill)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/hot-swap-an-active-bucket/25674/3 "2022-07-06T23:33:23Z")

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Thanks @Anaisdg . Saw the [edge replication](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURE_xJRhp0) YouTube after posting this topic.

Rasp Pi 4 using docker images for Telegraf and Influxdb. This dev config will migrate to a production environment which brought up the question.

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**Author:** ![Anaisdg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/anaisdg/32/6401_2.png) [@Anaisdg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Anaisdg)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/hot-swap-an-active-bucket/25674/4 "2022-07-07T23:14:06Z")

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@phill,  
Yah unfortunately tor tolerance against outages and high availability we suggest you pay for the Enterprise version…we have to sell something 😛 .