You're right, this is an oversight. Created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2596 to fix.
As for a workaround, you can drop the index + recreate. (Upgrade to 0.7.5 first, if you haven't yet.) On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Arsene Lee <arsene....@ruckuswireless.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > We are trying to use snapshot for backup and restore. We found out that > snapshot doesn’t take secondary indexes. > > We are wondering why is that? And is there any way we can rebuild the > secondary index? > > > > Regards, > > > > Arsene -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com