Re: different disk foot print of cassandra data folder on copying

2014-11-05 Thread KZ Win
Duh. I totally forgot about my snapshotting just before daily rsync backup. k.z. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:08 PM, KZ Win wrote: >> >> I have cassandra nodes with long uptime. Disk foot print for >> cassandra data older is different when I c

Re: different disk foot print of cassandra data folder on copying

2014-11-05 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:08 PM, KZ Win wrote: > I have cassandra nodes with long uptime. Disk foot print for > cassandra data older is different when I copy to a different folder. > > I am talking about as much 100% different for 25-40GB of data. On > copying they grow to double that. 1) C

different disk foot print of cassandra data folder on copying

2014-11-05 Thread KZ Win
I have cassandra nodes with long uptime. Disk foot print for cassandra data older is different when I copy to a different folder. Why is that ? I have used rsync and cp. This can be very confusing when trying to do certain maintenance tasks like hardware upgrade on EC2 and backing up a snapshot.