Re: Backup full cluster

2011-05-04 Thread aaron morton
Also see the recent discussion "Best way to backup" and this handy tool from simplegeo.com https://github.com/simplegeo/tablesnap - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4 May 2011, at 19:12, Peter Schuller wrote: >> would help

Re: Backup full cluster

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Schuller
> would help here too in a very simple way... will try to file a JIRA > for that. No I won't, it's a broken suggestion (because you'd lose data; write 1 before cut-off will be overwritten by write 2 after cut-off, but starting up a node with cut-off will then see neither). Note to self again: Thi

Re: Backup full cluster

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Schuller
> Snapshot runs on a local node. How do I ensure I have a 'point in > time' snapshot of the full cluster ? Do I have to stop the writes on > the full cluster and then snapshot all the nodes individually ? You don't. By backing up individual nodes you can do a full cluster recovery that is eventual

Backup full cluster

2011-05-03 Thread A J
Snapshot runs on a local node. How do I ensure I have a 'point in time' snapshot of the full cluster ? Do I have to stop the writes on the full cluster and then snapshot all the nodes individually ? Thanks.