Hi Tim, There is actully...the old HW will be decommissioned before the one arrives. In the meantime I need to store my data in another place :) I've got your suggestion of how I would've done it if I didn't have this problem.
Cheers, Alex On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Tim Smith <tim.sm...@webtrends.com> wrote: > Alex,**** > > ** ** > > Is there a reason you don’t just join new hardware to the cluster and then > remove the old hardware from the cluster? That would seem like the easiest > way to accomplish a hardware upgrade.**** > > ** ** > > *Tim Smith* | noc administrator**** > > O: +1 503.553.2554 M: 707.738.8132 TW: @tas50**** > > *webtrends <http://www.webtrends.com/>* | 851 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1600, > Portland, OR 97204**** > > *The Global Leader in Mobile and Social* *Analytics***** > > ** ** > > *From:* Alexandru Dan Sicoe [mailto:sicoe.alexan...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:18 AM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* exporting data from Cassandra cluster**** > > ** ** > > Hello everyone. > 3 node Cassandra 0.8.5 cluster. I've left the system running in > production environment for long term testing. I've accumulated about 350GB > of data with RF=2. The machines I used for the tests are older and need to > be replaced. Because of this I need to export the data to a permanent > location. How should I export the data? In order to reduce the storage spac > I want to export only the non-replicated data? I mean, just one copy of the > data (without the replicas). Is this possible? How? > > Cheers, > Alexandru**** > -- Alexandru Dan Sicoe MEng, CERN Marie Curie ACEOLE Fellow
