Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
ec 9, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Nate Yoder wrote: > >> I am currently running a 6 node Cassandra 2.1.1 cluster on EC2 using >> C3.2XLarge nodes which overall is working very well for us. However, after >> letting it run for

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
Yoder* Principal Engineer & Data Scientist, Whistle 415-944-7344 // n...@whistle.com On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Nate Yoder wrote: > Hi Reynald, > > Good idea but I have incremental backups turned off and other than *.db > files nothing else appears to be in the data dir

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
ncremental > backup hard-links each time a new snapshot is created.* > These backups are stored in directories named "backups" at the same level > as the "snapshots' directories. > > Reynald > > > On 09/12/2014 18:13, Nate Yoder wrote: > > Thanks for the a

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
bout losing a node > and having only 1 copy of my data available in prod. > > > On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 8:40:37 AM Nate Yoder wrote: > >> Thanks Jonathan. So there is nothing too idiotic about my current set-up >> with 6 boxes each with 256 vnodes each and a RF of 2? &

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
1 AM, Jonathan Haddad wrote: > You don't need a prime number of nodes in your ring, but it's not a bad > idea to it be a multiple of your RF when your cluster is small. > > > On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 8:29:35 AM Nate Yoder wrote: > >> Hi Ian, >> >> Thanks for t

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
I found several snapshots on > my disk recently (which can take a lot of space). So perhaps they are > automatically generated by some operation? No idea. Regardless, nuking > those freed up a ton of space for me. > > - Ian > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Nate Yoder

Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-08 Thread Nate Yoder
Hi All, I am new to Cassandra so I apologise in advance if I have missed anything obvious but this one currently has me stumped. I am currently running a 6 node Cassandra 2.1.1 cluster on EC2 using C3.2XLarge nodes which overall is working very well for us. However, after letting it run for a wh