On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Rob Coli <rc...@palominodb.com> wrote:
> > > some of my colleagues seem to use this method to backup/restore a > cluster, > > successfully: > > > >> on each of the node, save entire /cassandra/data/ dir to S3, > > then on a new set of nodes, with exactly the same number of nodes, copy > > back each of the data/ dir. > > > > then boot up cluster. > > Yep, that works as long as the two clusters have the same tokens and > replication strategies. > For an alternative that doesn't require the same ring topology, you can use the bulkloader, which will take care of distributing the data to the correct nodes automatically. -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
