Re: Decommission an entire DC

2013-08-12 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Lanny Ripple wrote: > That one is documented -- > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/index.html#cassandra/operations/ops_add_dc_to_cluster_t.html > That doc is incomplete, IMO. It (and the doc for adding a node) should contain an instruction to

Re: Decommission an entire DC

2013-07-24 Thread Lanny Ripple
That one is documented -- http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/index.html#cassandra/operations/ops_add_dc_to_cluster_t.html On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Cyril Scetbon wrote: > And if we want to add a new DC ? I suppose we should add all nodes and > alter the replication factor

Re: Decommission an entire DC

2013-07-24 Thread Cyril Scetbon
And if we want to add a new DC ? I suppose we should add all nodes and alter the replication factor of the keyspace after that, but if anyone can confirm it and maybe give me some tips ? FYI ,we have 2 DCs with between 10 and 20 nodes in each and a 2To database (local replication factor include

Re: Decommission an entire DC

2013-07-23 Thread Omar Shibli
All you need to do is to decrease the replication factor of DC1 to 0, and then decommission the nodes one by one, I've tried this before and it worked with no issues. Thanks, On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Lanny Ripple wrote: > Hi, > > We have a multi-dc setup using DC1:2, DC2:2. We want to

Decommission an entire DC

2013-07-23 Thread Lanny Ripple
Hi, We have a multi-dc setup using DC1:2, DC2:2. We want to get rid of DC1. We're in the position where we don't need to save any of the data on DC1. We know we'll lose a (tiny. already checked) bit of data but our processing is such that we'll recover over time. How do we drop DC1 and just m