Hi Daniel,
Yes, you are right it does require some additional work to rsync just the
snapshots.
What about doing something like this to make rsync syntax for the backup
easier?
# in the Cassandra data directory, iterate through the keyspaces
for ks in $(find . -type d -iname backup)
do
# itera
Hi Varun,
yes you are right - that's the structure that gets created. But if I want
to backup ALL columnfamilies at once this requires a quite complex rsync as
Vladimir mentioned.
I can't just copy over the /data/keyspace directory as that contains all
the data AND all the snapshots. I really have
I did not get your question completely, with "snapshot files are mixed with
files and backup files".
When you call nodetool snapshot, it will create a directory with snapshot
name if specified or current timestamp at
/data///backup/. This directory will
have all sstables, metadata files and schema
