RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Version Rollback

2018-02-28 Thread Durity, Sean R
minor version upgrades). Sean Durity From: shalom sagges [mailto:shalomsag...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 3:54 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Version Rollback These are really good directions. Thanks a lot everyone! @Kenneth - The cluster is comprised

Re: Version Rollback

2018-02-28 Thread shalom sagges
These are really good directions. Thanks a lot everyone! @Kenneth - The cluster is comprised of 44 nodes, version 2.0.14, ~2.5TB of data per node. It's gonna be a major version upgrade (or upgrades to be exact... version 3.x is the target). @Jeff, I have a passive DC. What if I upgrade the passiv

Re: Version Rollback

2018-02-27 Thread Jeff Jirsa
MOST minor versions support rollback - the exceptions are those where internode protocol changes (3.0.14 being the only one in recent memory), or where sstable format changes (again rare). No major versions support rollback - the only way to do it is to upgrade in a way that you can effectively

RE: Version Rollback

2018-02-27 Thread Kenneth Brotman
I wonder if you could use Apache Spark to do it? Kenneth Brotman From: Carl Mueller [mailto:carl.muel...@smartthings.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 9:22 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Version Rollback My speculation is that IF (bigif) the sstable formats are

Re: Version Rollback

2018-02-27 Thread Carl Mueller
My speculation is that IF (bigif) the sstable formats are compatible between the versions, which probably isn't the case for major versions, then you could drop back. If the sstables changed format, then you'll probably need to figure out how to rewrite the sstables in the older format and then ss

RE: Version Rollback

2018-02-27 Thread Kenneth Brotman
Could you tell us the size and configuration of your Cassandra cluster? Kenneth Brotman From: shalom sagges [mailto:shalomsag...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 6:19 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Version Rollback Hi All, I'm planning to upgrade my C* cluster t