Re: .TombstoneOverwhelmingException

2014-08-23 Thread Aravindan T
Thanks Robert. I guess the issue is resolved now after doing the mentioned step. Can you tell me how to verify the current tombstone counts in order to do a regular check? Thanks Aravindan Thangavelu -Robert Coli rc...@eventbrite.com wrote: - To: user@cassandra.apache.org

Question about incremental backup

2014-08-23 Thread Jens Rantil
Hi, I am setting backup and restoration tooling for a Cassandra cluster and have a specific question regarding incremental backup. Let’s say I’m running incremental backups and take a snapshot. At the exact(ish) same time as my snapshot it taken another incremental *.db file is hard linked

Re: Question about incremental backup

2014-08-23 Thread Robert Coli
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Jens Rantil jens.ran...@tink.se wrote: I am setting backup and restoration tooling for a Cassandra cluster and have a specific question regarding incremental backup. Let’s say I’m running incremental backups and take a snapshot. At the exact(ish) same time

Re: Question about incremental backup

2014-08-23 Thread Andrey Ilinykh
keep in mind backing up SSTables is not enough. To have truly incremental backup you have to store commit logs also. Thank you, Andrey On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Robert Coli rc...@eventbrite.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Jens Rantil jens.ran...@tink.se wrote: I am

How to free disk space after decreasing replication factor?

2014-08-23 Thread Yatong Zhang
Hi, I am using leveled compaction and I changed the replication factor from 3 to 2, but after a few days the disk space weren't freed. I tried to trigger the compaction or clean up, but looks like it didn't take any effect.