For me, to transition production data into a development environment for real world testing. Also, backups are never a bad idea, though I agree most all risk is mitigated due to cassandra's design.
will On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Sasha Dolgy <sdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > well, this is what i'm getting at. why would you want to back it up if the > cluster is working properly? backup is silly.... ; ) > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:54 PM, William Oberman > <ober...@civicscience.com>wrote: > >> I'm considering similar issues right now. The problem with ephemeral >> storage is I don't know an easy way to back it up, while on an EBS it's a >> simple snapshot API call. >> >> Otherwise, I believe the performance of the ephemeral (certainly in the >> case of large or greater, where you can RAID0 multiple disks) is way better >> than EBS. >> >> will >> >> -- Will Oberman Civic Science, Inc. 3030 Penn Avenue., First Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15201 (M) 412-480-7835 (E) ober...@civicscience.com