Thanks for quick reply, Jon. But, what about in case of node/cluster going down? Would there be data loss if I remove these files manually?
How is it typically managed in production setups? What are the best-practices for the same? Do people take snapshots on each node before removing the backups? This is my first production deployment - so, still trying to learn. Thanks, Kunal On 10 January 2017 at 21:36, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > You can just delete them off the filesystem (rm) > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:02 AM Kunal Gangakhedkar < > kgangakhed...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We have a 3-node cassandra cluster with incremental backup set to true. >> Each node has 1TB data volume that stores cassandra data. >> >> The load in the output of 'nodetool status' comes up at around 260GB each >> node. >> All our keyspaces use replication factor = 3. >> >> However, the df output shows the data volumes consuming around 850GB of >> space. >> I checked the keyspace directory structures - most of the space goes in >> <CASS_DATA_VOL>/data/<KEYSPACE>/<CF>/backups. >> >> We have never manually run snapshots. >> >> What is the typical procedure to clear the backups? >> Can it be done without taking the node offline? >> >> Thanks, >> Kunal >> >
