Re: Cassandra Needs to Grow Up by Version Five!

2018-02-20 Thread Prasenjit Sarkar
Jeff, I don't think you can push the topic of usability back to developers by asking them to open JIRAs. It is upon the technical leaders of the Cassandra community to take the initiative in this regard. We can argue back and forth on the dynamics of open source projects, but the usability concern

Re: Backups eating up disk space

2017-01-11 Thread Prasenjit Sarkar
Hi Kunal, Razi's post does give a very lucid description of how cassandra manages the hard links inside the backup directory. Where it needs clarification is the following: --> incremental backups is a system wide setting and so its an all or nothing approach --> as multiple people have stated,

Re: What is the merit of incremental backup

2016-07-14 Thread Prasenjit Sarkar
Hi Satoshi You are correct that incremental backups offer you the opportunity to reduce the amount of data you need to transfer offsite. On the recovery path, you need to piece together the full backup and subsequent incremental backups. However, where incremental backups help is with respect to