Then http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/backup_restore should mention it :-)
Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> a écrit sur 02/08/2012 11:45:46 : > Actually that's wrong, it is perfectly possible to restore a snapshot > on a live cassandra cluster. > There is even basically 2 solutions: > 1) use the sstableloader (http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/bulk-loading) > 2) copy the snapshot sstable in the right place and call the JMX > method loadNewSSTables() (in the column family MBean, which mean you > need to do that per-CF). > > -- > Sylvain