How to disable persistence with redis?

Question

I was wondering how to disable presistence in redis. There is mention of the possibility of doing this here: http://redis.io/topics/persistence. I mean it in the exact same sense as described there. Any help would be very much appreciated!

Answer 1

To disable all data persistence in Redis do the following in the redis.conf file:

1. Disable AOF by setting the appendonly configuration directive to no (it is the default value). like this:

   appendonly no 

2. Disable RDB snapshotting by commenting all of the save configuration directives (there are 3 that are defined by default) and explicitly disabling saving:

   #save 900 1 #save 300 10 #save 60 10000 save "" 

After change, make sure you restart Redis to apply them.

Alternatively, you can use the CONFIG SET command to apply these changes during runtime (just make sure you also do a CONFIG REWRITE to persist the changes).

Note: depending on your Redis' version, there are other tweaks that prevent Redis from accessing the disk for replication-related tasks.

Answer 2

If you want to avoid playing with redis.conf (dev/test environments), you can do it through the command line with

redis-server --save "" --appendonly no

(tested with redis server 3.2.6 and 5.0.5)