Re: Primary and Backup clusters

2010-05-03 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I suppose you could use rsync (sstable files are immutable, so you don't need to worry about not getting a "consistent" version of the data files), but compared to letting Cassandra handle the replication the way it's designed to, # you'll generate a lot of disk i/o doing that vs # your backup clu

Primary and Backup clusters

2010-05-03 Thread Viktor Jevdokimov
Hello, Our system (not Cassandra) have backup cluster in different datacenter in case of primary cluster unavailability or for software upgrades. 100% of traffic goes to primary cluster. We switch 100% traffic to backup cluster in case above for a short time, then when issues are resolved, traff