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Gary Holtz
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Marcia Ramos
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Clarifying some info about sidekiq jobs in background migrations
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# Background Migrations
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# Background migrations
Background migrations can be used to perform data migrations that would
otherwise take a very long time (hours, days, years, etc) to complete. For
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@@ -92,6 +99,20 @@ bulk_migrate_async(
)
```
Note that this will queue a Sidekiq job immediately: if you have a large number
of records, this may not be what you want. You can use the function
`queue_background_migration_jobs_by_range_at_intervals`
to split the job into
batches:
```
ruby
queue_background_migration_jobs_by_range_at_intervals
(
ClassName
,
BackgroundMigrationClassName
,
2
.
minutes
,
batch_size:
10_000
)
```
You'll also need to make sure that newly created data is either migrated, or
saved in both the old and new version upon creation. For complex and time
consuming migrations it's best to schedule a background job using an
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