We do snapshot and sstableloader. with sstableloader, it is ok to have different configuration of the "stand by" cluster (i.e. number of the nodes). however, there is a issue we ran into with the sstableloader (java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7385
Thanks, Fay On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:58 AM, Erick Ramirez <flightc...@gmail.com> wrote: > A slight variation to Ben Slater's idea is to build the second cluster > like-for-like and assigning the same tokens used by the original nodes. If > you restore the data onto the equivalent nodes with the same tokens, the > data will be accessible as normal. Cheers! > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com> wrote: > >> We need to make a copy of a cluster. We’re going to do some testing >> against the copy and then discard it. What’s the best way of doing that? I >> created another datacenter, and then have tried to divorce it from the >> original datacenter, but have had troubles doing so. >> >> Suggestions? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Robert >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org >> > >
