This seems like an apt time to quote [1]: > Remember that you get 1 point for making a backup and 10,000 points for restoring one.
Restoring from backups is my goal. The commonly recommended tools (tablesnap, cassandra_snapshotter) all seem to leave the restore operation as a pretty complicated exercise for the operator. Do any include a working way to restore, on a different host, all of node X's data from backups to the correct directories, such that the restored files are in the proper places and the node restart method [2] "just works"? On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > tl;dr - tablesnap works. There are awkward aspects to its use, but if you > are operating Cassandra in AWS it's probably the best off the shelf > off-node backup. > Have folks here ever used tableslurp to restore a backup taken with tablesnap? How would you rate the difficulty of restore? >From my limited testing, tableslurp looks like it can only restore a single table within a keyspace per execution. I have hundreds of tables... so without automation around tableslurp, that doesn't seem like a reliable path toward a full restore. Perhaps someone has written a tool that drives tableslurp so it "just works" ? [1] http://serverfault.com/a/277092/218999 [2] http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/operations/ops_backup_noderestart_t.html
