The nodetool snapshot command has keyspace and column family options (from nodetool --help):
snapshot [keyspaces...] -cf [columnfamilyName] -t [snapshotName] - Take a snapshot of the optionally specified column family of the specified keyspaces using optional name snapshotName On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Adeel Akbar <adeel.ak...@panasiangroup.com>wrote: > Dear All, > > I have Cassandra 1.1.4 cluster with 2 nodes. I need to take backup and > restore on staging for testing purpose. I have taken snapshot with below > mentioned command but It created snapshot on every Keyspace's column > family. Is there any other way to take backup and restore quick. > > /opt/apache-cassandra-1.1.4/bin/nodetool -h localhost snapshot -t > cassandra_bkup > > *Snapshot directory:* > /var/log/cassandra/data/<KeySpace>/<subfolder/snapshot/cassandra_bkup > > -- > > > Thanks & Regards > > *Adeel** Akbar* > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
