AFAIK you just fire up the new one and let nature take it's course :) http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/operations/add_replace_nodes#replace-node
i.e. you do not need to use -Dcassandra.replace_token. Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 5/03/2013, at 1:06 AM, Jan Kesten <j.kes...@enercast.de> wrote: > Hello, > > while trying out cassandra I read about the steps necessary to replace a dead > node. In my test cluster I used a setup using num_tokens instead of > initial_tokens. How do I replace a dead node in this scenario? > > Thanks, > Jan