Re: questions about snapshots origin and removal

2015-07-17 Thread Paulo Motta
Hello John, Below are the situations where a snapshot is automatically taken on 1.2: 1. during compactions, if snapshot_before_compaction yaml option is set to true, in this case, the snapshot name will be -compact-. 2. when you drop or truncate a CF, when auto_snapshot yaml option is set to true

questions about snapshots origin and removal

2015-07-16 Thread John Wong
Hi all Quick questions. I was auditing disk usage of my cluster (cassandra 1.2.19). I found there was a node with 27G worth of snapshots in OpsCenter data directory. I don't remember doing any snapshots... I do run nodetool repair -pr every night, so they might be created by the repair process.