I built my first multi-node cluster and populated it with a bunch of data, and ran out of space far more quickly than I expected. On one node, I ended up with 76 snapshots, consuming a total of 220 GB of space. I only have 40 GB of data. It took several snapshots per hour, sometimes within a minute of each other. I don’t know why it would have any snapshots at all. I never consciously asked it to take a snapshot. I didn’t truncate or drop any CF’s or keyspaces or make any schema changes, and certainly not 76 times.
Any idea what would have caused Cassandra to take all these snapshots, and how I can make it stop? Thanks in advance Robert
