cassandra snapshot 1.2.5 , stores ttl?

2013-08-15 Thread rash aroskar
Hi, If I add some data in cassandra cluster with TTL lets say 2 days, took snapshot of it before it expires. If I use the snapshot to load the data in different/same cluster, will the data from the snapshot will carry the TTL of 2 days (from the time when the snapshot was created)? if not can I

Re: cassandra snapshot 1.2.5 , stores ttl?

2013-08-15 Thread Tyler Hobbs
Snapshots just hardlink the existing SSTable files. They don't freeze the TTL or anything like that, so data can expire while snapshotted and it will be converted to a tombstone when it's first compacted after you reload it. There's not an easy way to prevent this from happening. On Thu, Aug

Re: cassandra snapshot 1.2.5 , stores ttl?

2013-08-15 Thread rash aroskar
got it. Thanks for response. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Tyler Hobbs ty...@datastax.com wrote: Snapshots just hardlink the existing SSTable files. They don't freeze the TTL or anything like that, so data can expire while snapshotted and it will be converted to a tombstone when it's