Here you go http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Dealing_with_the_consequences_of_nodetool_repair_not_running_within_GCGraceSeconds
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 21/12/2011, at 2:44 PM, Blake Starkenburg wrote: > I have been playing around with Cassandra for a few months now. Starting to > explore more of the routine maintenance and backup strategies and I have a > general question about nodetool repair. After reading the following page: > http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/cluster_management it has > occurred to me that for these past few months I have NOT DONE any cleanup or > repair commands on a test 2-node cluster (and their has been quite a few > deletes, writes, etc.). > > For some reason I was under the assumption that Cassandra handled the > tombstone records from deletes automatically? Should I still run nodetool > repair and if so, what about old deletes which occurred months ago? > > Thank You!
