Hi Aaron,
Can he not specify all 256 tokens in the YAML of the new
cluster and then copy sstables?
I know it is a bit ugly but should work.
Sankalp
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Baskar Duraikannu <
baskar.duraikannu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Aaron
>
> On 7/9/13, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
> >> Can I just copy data files for the required keyspaces, create schema
> >> manually and run repair?
> > If you have something like RF 3 and 3 nodes then yes, you can copy the
> data
> > from one node in the source cluster to all nodes in the dest cluster and
> use
> > cleanup to remove the unneeded data. Because each node in the source
> cluster
> > has a full copy of the data.
> >
> > If that's not the case you cannot copy the data files, even if they have
> the
> > same number of nodes, because the nodes in the dest cluster will have
> > different tokens. AFAIK you need to export the full data set from the
> source
> > DC and then import it into the dest system.
> >
> > The Bulk Load utility may be of help
> > http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/references/bulkloader . You could copy
> the
> > SSTables from every node in the source system and bulk load them into the
> > dest system. That process will ensure rows are sent to nodes that are
> > replicas.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > -----------------
> > Aaron Morton
> > Freelance Cassandra Consultant
> > New Zealand
> >
> > @aaronmorton
> > http://www.thelastpickle.com
> >
> > On 9/07/2013, at 12:45 PM, Baskar Duraikannu
> > <baskar.duraikannu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> We have two clusters used by two different groups with vnodes enabled.
> Now
> >> there is a need to move some of the keyspaces from cluster 1 to cluster
> 2.
> >>
> >>
> >> Can I just copy data files for the required keyspaces, create schema
> >> manually and run repair?
> >>
> >> Anything else required? Please help.
> >> --
> >> Thanks,
> >> Baskar Duraikannu
> >
> >
>
