As we are still without a functional Cassandra cluster in our development
environment, I thought I’d try restarting the same node (one of 4 in the
cluster) with the following command:
ip=$(cat /etc/hostname); nodetool disablethrift && nodetool disablebinary &&
sleep 5 && nodetool disablegossip
Correction: “most of your database will be in chunk cache, or buffer cache
anyways.
From: Reid Pinchback
Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org"
Date: Friday, December 6, 2019 at 10:16 AM
To: "user@cassandra.apache.org"
Subject: Re: AWS ephemeral instances + backup
Message from External Sender
If you’re only going to have a small storage footprint per node like 100gb,
another option comes to mind. Use an instance type with large ram. Use an EBS
storage volume on an EBS-optimized instance type, and take EBS snapshots. Most
of your database will be in chunk cache anyways, so you only n
