Hi Jens – I put together a couple of simple scripts a couple of years ago
that might do exactly what you need. These leverage nodetool snapshot and
sstableloader to create keyspace snapshots, collect up all the necessary
SSTable files in an easy-to-move file, rename the keyspace, restore it to
the
I put together a shell wrapper around nodetool/sstableloader that I’ve been
running for the past few years –
https://github.com/AppliedInfrastructure/cassandra-snapshot-tools
Always seemed to work well for these kinds of scenarios… Never really had
to think about where SSTables were on the filesy
