On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:22:38 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
JE> 2010/2/25 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: >> I want a consistent backup. JE> You can get an "eventually consistent backup" by flushing all nodes JE> and snapshotting; no individual node's backup is guaranteed to be JE> consistent but if you restore from that snapshot then clients will get JE> eventually consistent behavior as usual. JE> Other than that there is no such thing as a "consistent view of the JE> data" in the strict sense, except in the trivial case of writes with JE> CL.ALL. That makes perfect sense, thanks for explaining. Can the explanation be part of the http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations section on backups? I'll submit the edit if you want. Thanks Ted
