Better: use bin/sstableloader, which will copy exactly the right ranges of data to the new cluster.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Rob Coli <rc...@palominodb.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Bryan Fernandez <bfernande...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> What would be the recommended >> approach to migrating a few column families from a six node cluster to a >> three node cluster? > > The easiest way (if you are not using counters) is : > > 1) make sure all filenames of sstables are unique [1] > 2) copy all sstablefiles from the 6 nodes to all 3 nodes > 3) run a "cleanup" compaction on the 3 nodes > > =Rob > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1983 > > -- > =Robert Coli > AIM>ALK - rc...@palominodb.com > YAHOO - rcoli.palominob > SKYPE - rcoli_palominodb -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
