RE: Backup/Restore in Cassandra

2014-03-07 Thread java8964
-0500 Subject: Re: Backup/Restore in Cassandra From: jlacefi...@datastax.com To: user@cassandra.apache.org Hello, Full snapshot forces a flush, yes.Incremental hard-links to SSTables, yes. This question really depends on how your cluster was "lost". Node Loss: You wou

Re: Backup/Restore in Cassandra

2014-03-07 Thread Jonathan Lacefield
Hello, Full snapshot forces a flush, yes. Incremental hard-links to SSTables, yes. This question really depends on how your cluster was "lost". Node Loss: You would be able to restore a node based on restoring backups + commit log or just by using repair. Cluster Loss: (all nod

Backup/Restore in Cassandra

2014-03-06 Thread java8964
Hi, Currently I am looking how the bacup/restore be done in Cassandra, based the document from DataStax: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/backup_restore Here is one way to do it: 1) Do a full snapshot every week2) Enable incremental backup every day So with last snapshot + the incremental backup