RE: Hiper-V snapshot and Cassandra

2015-10-21 Thread Raul D'Opazo
Hi, so what is the usual thing to take care of backups: -Take Cassandra snapshots -Take this snapshots to a backup system ? From: Robert Coli [mailto:rc...@eventbrite.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5:07 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Hiper-V snapshot and

Re: Hiper-V snapshot and Cassandra

2015-10-20 Thread Jeff Jirsa
As long as your hyper-v/vss snapshots include both the data directory and the commit log directory, then they’re exactly as good as tolerating a single power outage – you should be able to load the sstables and replay commit log and be fine. Assuming you’re moving the hyper-v/vss snapshot to

Re: Hiper-V snapshot and Cassandra

2015-10-20 Thread Robert Coli
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Raul D'Opazo wrote: > I only have one node, in one server (Windows 2012), and Cassandra will > grow up to 4TB approx. It is a hiper-v virtual machine, with enough > resources. > > This is an extremely unusual and probably degenerate use of Cassandra. > I have do