Jim,

Great idea - though it doesn't look like it's in 1.1.3 (which is what I'm running).

My lame idea of the morning is that I'm going to just read the whole keyspace with QUORUM reads to force read repairs - the unfortunate truth is that this is about 2B reads...

--david

On 10/11/12 4:51 PM, Jim Cistaro wrote:
I am not aware of any built-in mechanism for retrying repairs.  I believe
you will have to build that into your process.

As for reducing the time of each repair command to fit in your windows:

If you have multiple reasonable size column families, and are not already
doing this, one approach might be to do repairs on a per cf basis.  This
will break your repairs up into smaller chunks that might fit in the
window.

If you are not doing -pr (primary range), using that on each node causes
the repair command to only repair the primary range on the node (not the
ones it is replicating).

Depending on your version, there is also
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3912 which might help you
- but I have no experience using this feature.

jc

On 10/11/12 4:09 PM, "David Koblas" <da...@koblas.com> wrote:

I'm trying to bring up a new Datacenter - while I probably could have
brought things up in another way I've now got a DC that has a ready
Cassandra with keys allocated.  The problem is that I cannot get a
repair to complete due since it appears that some part of my network
decides to restart all connections twice a day (6am and 2pm - ok 5
minutes before).

So when I start a repair job, it usually get's a ways into things before
one of the nodes goes DOWN, then back up.  What I don't see is the
repair restarting, it just stops.

Is there a workaround for this case, or is there something else I could
be doing?

--david


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