Lou,
when taking snapshot, set tag like "uuidgen --time" and use this tag to clear
out old snapshot.
On Friday, November 2, 2018, 9:28:03 AM PDT, Oleksandr Shulgin
<oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 5:15 PM Lou DeGenaro <lou.degen...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking to hear how others are coping with snapshots.
According to the doc:
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/operations/opsBackupDeleteSnapshot.html
When taking a snapshot, previous snapshot files are not automatically deleted.
You should remove old snapshots that are no longer needed.
The nodetool clearsnapshot command removes all existing snapshot files from the
snapshot directory of each keyspace. You should make it part of your back-up
process to clear old snapshots before taking a new one.
But if you delete first, then there is a window of time when no snapshot exists
until the new one is created. And with a single snapshot there is no recovery
further back than it.
You can also delete specific snapshot, by passing its name to the clearsnapshot
command. For example, you could use snapshot date as part of the name. This
will also prevent removing snapshots which were taken for reasons other than
backup, like the automatic snapshot due to running TRUNCATE or DROP commands,
or any other snapshots which might have been created manually by the operators.
Regards,--Alex
