Excellent. We'll give it a try. Thanks Brandon. -brian
---- Brian O'Neill Lead Architect, Software Development Health Market Science | 2700 Horizon Drive | King of Prussia, PA 19406 p: 215.588.6024blog: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/boneill42/ blog: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/ On 1/9/12 10:31 AM, "Brandon Williams" <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Brian O'Neill <b...@alumni.brown.edu> >wrote: >> >> What is the fastest way to copy a column family? >> We were headed down the map/reduce path, but that seems silly. >> Any file level mechanisms for this? > >Copy all the sstables 1:1 renaming them to the new CF name. Then >create the schema for the CF. > >-Brandon
