On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Ben Chobot <be...@instructure.com> wrote:
> I was going over http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/backup_restore, which > seems pretty clear about how to restore a snapshot. Basically, it seems the > procedure is to stop your node, wipe the commit logs, move the snapshotted > sstables into place, and restart. That makes sense…. so long as you only > have one keyspace. But what happens when you have multiple keyspaces and > you only want to restore one of them? Is that supported? It seems that > wiping the commit logs has the potential for unexpected data loss on the > keyspaces you didn’t want to restore. > For what purpose are you wiping the commit logs as they relate to the keyspaces being restored? Are you trying to avoid in-flight writes? If so, just nodetool drain (although this doesn't actually reliably work in 1.1 era... [1]) before stopping the node. =Rob http://twitter.com/rcolidba [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4446
