What version of Cassandra are you using? This could be from snapshot repairs in newer versions of Cassandra. CASSANDRA-5950<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5950>
Also, check out the snapshot settings, other than incremental, in the .yaml file. There are several snapshot configurations which could have been set for your cluster. http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml_r.html Jonathan Lacefield Solutions Architect, DataStax (404) 822 3487 <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jlacefield> <http://www.datastax.com/cassandrasummit14> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Batranut Bogdan <batra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello all > > I have a big col family and I see that cassandra is taking snapshots for > it. I do not have incremental enabled. What are the triggers that start the > process of taking a snapshot? Is is automatic ? > > Thanks >
