That would be OK only if you never had node go down (e.g. a restart) or drop messages.
It's not something I would consider trying. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 28/02/2013, at 3:21 PM, Mike Koh <defmike...@gmail.com> wrote: > It has been suggested to me that we could save a fair amount of time and > money by taking a snapshot of only 1 replica (so every third node for most > column families). Assuming that we are okay with not having the absolute > latest data, does this have any possibility of working? I feel like it > shouldn't but don't really know the argument for why it wouldn't.
