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Compiling and Installing Milvus

After the Milvus compilation environment is configured, compile and install the Milvus database.

  1. Pull the Milvus source code.
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    conda activate milvus
git clone https://gitee.com/milvus-io/milvus.git
  2. Add a remote link and obtain the latest modification.
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    cd milvus
git remote remove origin
git remote add origin https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus.git
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master
git fetch && git pull origin master
  3. Switch to the target version.
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    git checkout v2.4.5
  4. Compile Milvus.
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    make milvus
  5. Configure environment variables.
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    echo 'export PATH=~/milvus/bin/:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/milvus/internal/core/output/lib64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
  6. Set the local path for storing Milvus data.
    1. Open the Milvus configuration file.
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      vim ~/milvus/configs/milvus.yaml
    2. Find localStorage and change the path to a custom path.
      localStorage:
    path: /data/milvus/milvus-data/data/
    3. Find rocksmq and change the path to a custom path.
      rocksmq:
    path: /data/milvus/milvus-data/rdb_data
    4. Find natsmq > server > storeDir and change the path to a custom path.
      natsmq:
    server:
        storeDir: /data/milvus/milvus-data/nats
    5. Save the configuration and exit.

    You can modify the preceding paths based on the server environment. It is recommended that the paths be stored in the same folder for easy observation.

  7. Check whether this package is successfully installed.
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    milvus

    If no error is reported or the following information is displayed, Milvus is successfully installed.

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    Usage:

milvus run [server type] [flags]
        Start a Milvus Server.
        Tips: Only the server type is 'mixture', flags about starting server can be used.
[flags]
        -rootcoord 'true'
                Start the rootcoord server.
        -querycoord 'true'
                Start the querycoord server.
        -indexcoord 'true'
                Start the indexcoord server.
        -datacoord 'true'
                Start the datacoord server.
        -alias ''
                Set alias


milvus stop [server type] [flags]
        Stop a Milvus Server.
[flags]
        -alias ''
                Set alias


milvus mck run [flags]
        Milvus data consistency check.
        Tips: The flags are optional.
[flags]
        -etcdIp ''
                Ip to connect the ectd server.
        -etcdRootPath ''
                The root path of operating the etcd data.
        -minioAddress ''
                Address to connect the minio server.
        -minioUsername ''
                The username to login the minio server.
        -minioPassword ''
                The password to login the minio server.
        -minioUseSSL 'false'
                Whether to use the ssl to connect the minio server.
        -minioBucketName ''
                The bucket to operate the data in it

milvus mck cleanTrash [flags]
        Clean the back inconsistent data
        Tips: The flags is the same as its of the 'milvus mck [flags]'


[server type]
        querycoord
        querynode
        indexnode
        datacoord
        datanode
        standalone
        rootcoord
        proxy
        mixture