Hello all
I’m considering migration from my Raspberry Pi ARM based system to a mini-PC set up x86.
To do this I’m backing up the data from the ARM live system and restoring it to my x86 instance and it is taking a long time so far to restore and I can’t even tell how far it’s got. Checking the InfluxDB container logs is showing entries like these:
ts=2025-07-14T18:25:33.752697Z lvl=info msg="Reindexing TSM data" log_id=0xjYm1nW000 service=storage-engine engine=tsm1 db_shard_id=9
ts=2025-07-14T18:25:33.752702Z lvl=info msg="Reindexing WAL data" log_id=0xjYm1nW000 service=storage-engine engine=tsm1 db_shard_id=9
ts=2025-07-14T18:25:33.759911Z lvl=info msg="index opened with 8 partitions" log_id=0xjYm1nW000 service=storage-engine index=tsi
ts=2025-07-14T18:25:33.760082Z lvl=info msg="loading changes (start)" log_id=0xjYm1nW000 service=storage-engine engine=tsm1 op_name="field indices" path=/data/engine/data/cceba680697b7a19/autogen/10/fields.idxl op_event=start
It’s progressing but incredibly slowly and the container CPU usage is about 13% so it’s not straining for resources.
Is it normal for the system to need to reindex when restoring to another architecture?
Can I do anything to make this run faster? If I decide to migrate I will lose a lot of metrics while it’s reindexing and taking a very long time to do so.
Thank you in advance
