Valid suggestion. Stick to the plan, avoid downtime of a node more than hinted 
handoff window. OR increase window to a larger value, if you know it is going 
to take longer than current setting


Regards,
Nitan
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> On Apr 8, 2019, at 8:43 PM, Soumya Jena <soumya.jena61...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Cassandra tracks it and no new hints will be created once the default 3 hours 
> window is passed  . However , cassandra will not automatically trigger a 
> repair if your node is down for more than 3 hours .Default settings of 3 
> hours for hints is defined in cassandra.yaml file . Look for 
> "max_hint_window_in_ms" in the cassandra.yaml file. Its configurable . Apart 
> from the periodic repair you should start a repair when you bring up a node 
> which has missed some writes .   
> 
> One more thing is  if node is down for long time and missed a lot of writes 
> sometimes it may be better to add that as a new fresh node rather than adding 
> it and then doing repair .
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 4:49 PM Stefan Miklosovic 
>> <stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
>> Ah I see it is the default for hinted handoffs. I was somehow thinking
>> its bigger figure I do not know why :)
>> 
>> I would say you should run repairs continuously / periodically so you
>> would not even have to do some thinking about that and it should run
>> in the background in a scheduled manner if possible.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 04:19, Kunal <kunal.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello everyone..
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I have a 6 node Cassandra datacenter, 3 nodes on each datacenter. If one 
>> > of the node goes down and remain down for more than 3 hr, I have to run 
>> > nodetool repair. Just wanted to ask if Cassandra  automatically tracks the 
>> > time when one of the Cassandra node goes down or do I need to write code 
>> > to track the time and run repair when node comes back online after 3 hrs.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in anticipation.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Kunal Vaid
>> 
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