On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Shubham Srivastava <shubham.srivast...@makemytrip.com> wrote: > On another thought I could also try copying the data of my keyspace alone > from one node to another node in the new cluster (I have both the old and new > clusters having same nodes DC1:6,DC2:6 with same tokens) with the same tokens. > > Would there be any risk of the new cluster getting joined to the old cluster > probably if the data inside keyspace is aware of the original IP's etc.
As a result of this very concern while @ Digg... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-769 tl;dr : as long as your cluster names are unique in your cluster config (**and you do not copy the System keyspace, letting the new cluster initialize with the new cluster name**), nodes are at no risk of joining the wrong cluster. =Rob -- =Robert Coli AIM>ALK - rc...@palominodb.com YAHOO - rcoli.palominob SKYPE - rcoli_palominodb
