On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 6:58 AM, ZeroUno <zerozerouno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So you mean that "refresh" needs to be used if the cluster is running, but > if I stopped cassandra while copying the sstables then refresh is useless? > So the error "No new SSTables were found" during my refresh attempt is due > to the fact that the sstables in my data dir were not "new" because already > loaded, and not to the files not being found? > Yes. You should be able to see logs of it opening the files it finds in the data dir. > So... if I stop the two nodes on the first DC, restore their sstables' > files, and then restart the nodes, nothing else needs to be done on the > first DC? > Be careful to avoid bootstrapping, but yes. > And on the second DC instead I just need to do "nodetool rebuild -- > FirstDC" on _both_ nodes? Yes. =Rob