Hi Simon, The sstables are immutable so the snapshot command creates hard links for each sstable. Right now it is more for archival purposes. You should be able to take the sstables in the snapshot directory and put them in the regular data directory. You can also copy the sstables onto another machine. Currently, there is no support of telling cassandra to use a particular snapshot if that's what you are looking for.
Cheers, Sammy On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Simon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any documentation on the snapshot functionality - I'm able to > successfully create one using nodeprobe, but I don't know how I can > use it. > > Thanks! > > Simon >
