If you have the disck space you can just copy all the data files from the snapshot onto the dev node, renaming any with conflicting names. Then bring up the dev node and it should see the data. you can then compact to merge and drop all the duplicate data.
You can also use the sstable loader tool to send the snapshot files to the dev node. -Jeremiah On Mar 26, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Deno Vichas wrote: all, is there a easy way to take a 4 node snapshot and restore it on my single node dev cluster? thanks, deno