Hi, I am trying to bring up a new node (with different IP) to replace a dead node on cassandra 0.7.5. Rather than bootstrap, I am copying the SSTable files to the new node(backed up files) as my data runs into several GB. Although the node successfully joins the ring, some of the ring nodes still seem to point to the old dead node as seen from ring command. Is there a way to notify all nodes about the new node? Am looking for options that can bring the cluster back to it original state in a faster and reliable manner since I do have all the SSTable files. One option I looked at was to remove all system table and restart the entire cluster. But I loose the schemas with this approach.
Thanks in advance for your reply. VR
