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Title: rladmin restart
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- rs
description: Restarts Redis Software processes for a specific database.
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---

Schedules a restart of the Redis Software processes on primary and replica instances of a specific database.

``` sh
rladmin restart db { db:<id> | <name> }
        [preserve_roles]
        [discard_data]
        [force_discard]
```

### Parameters

| Parameter      | Type/Value                     | Description                                                           |
|----------------|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| db             | db:\<id\><br /> name           | Restarts Redis Software processes for the specified database                |
| discard_data   |                                | Allows discarding data if there is no persistence or replication      |
| force_discard  |                                | Forcibly discards data even if there is persistence or replication    |
| preserve_roles |                                | Performs an additional failover to maintain shard roles               |

### Returns

Returns `Done` if the restart completed successfully. Otherwise, it returns an error.

### Example

``` sh
$ rladmin restart db db:5 preserve_roles
Monitoring 1db07491-35da-4bb6-9bc1-56949f4c312a
active - SMUpgradeBDB init
active - SMUpgradeBDB stop_forwarding
active - SMUpgradeBDB stop_active_expire
active - SMUpgradeBDB check_slave
oactive - SMUpgradeBDB stop_active_expire
active - SMUpgradeBDB second_failover
completed - SMUpgradeBDB
Done
```