Hi I want to take out 2 nodes from a 8 node cluster and use in another cluster, but can't afford the overhead of streaming the data and rebalance cluster. Since replication factor is 2 in first cluster, I won't lose any data.
I'm planning to save my commit_log and data directories and bootstrapping the node in the second cluster. Afterwards I'll just replace both the directories and join the node back to the original cluster. This should work since cassandra saves all the cluster and schema info in the system keyspace. Is it advisable and safe to go ahead? Thanks Rohit
