Go ahead.
2010/2/25 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: > 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 > >
