This is the *most* useful page on the wiki http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 27 May 2011, at 02:06, Marcus Bointon wrote: > On 26 May 2011, at 15:21, Sasha Dolgy wrote: > >> Turn the node off, remove the node from the ring using nodetool and >> removetoken .... i've found this to be the best problem-free way. >> Maybe it's better now ... >> http://blog.sasha.dolgy.com/2011/03/apache-cassandra-nodetool.html > > So I'd need to have at least replication=2 in order to do that safely? Your > article makes it sound like draining/decommission doesn't work? > > Has anyone automated node addition/removal using chef or similar? > > Marcus
