Alain, thanks for sharing! I'm confused why you do so many repetitive rsyncs. Just being cautious or is there another reason? Also, why do you have --delete-before when you're copying data to a temp (assumed empty) directory?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did the process a few weeks ago and ended up writing a runbook and a > script. I have anonymised and share it fwiw. > > https://github.com/arodrime/cassandra-tools/tree/master/remove_disk > > It is basic bash. I tried to have the shortest down time possible, making > this a bit more complex, but it allows you to do a lot in parallel and just > do a fast operation sequentially, reducing overall operation time. > > This worked fine for me, yet I might have make some errors while making it > configurable though variables. Be sure to be around if you decide to run > this. Also I automated this more by using knife (Chef), I hate to repeat > ops, this is something you might want to consider. > > Hope this is useful, > > C*heers, > ----------------- > Alain Rodriguez > France > > The Last Pickle > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > 2016-02-18 8:28 GMT+01:00 Anishek Agarwal <anis...@gmail.com>: > >> Hey Branton, >> >> Please do let us know if you face any problems doing this. >> >> Thanks >> anishek >> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Branton Davis < >> branton.da...@spanning.com> wrote: >> >>> We're about to do the same thing. It shouldn't be necessary to shut >>> down the entire cluster, right? >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Anishek Agarwal <anis...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> To accomplish this can I just copy the data from disk1 to disk2 with >>>>> in the relevant cassandra home location folders, change the cassanda.yaml >>>>> configuration and restart the node. before starting i will shutdown the >>>>> cluster. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes. >>>> >>>> =Rob >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
