Preserve beanstalkd queue on restart or crash

Question

I'm using beanstalkd to managed queues. I just realised that if there are jobs in a queue and the beanstalkd process is restarted or crashes then the job is lost forever (or so I think).

Is there a way to preserve the jobs in the queue on beanstalkd failure or restart? If not, whats best practice to ensure jobs are never lost?

Answer 1

Beanstalkd can be started with the -b (binary log) option, and beanstalkd will write all jobs to a binlog. If the power goes out, you can restart beanstalkd with the same option and it will recover the contents of the log.