Re: Snapshots - Backup/Restore requirements

2015-10-12 Thread Jeff Ferland
I have a semi-hacky Python script I’ve written up. It needs refining for public use, but I’ll put it in Github later today and send you a link as I work on it. It uses boto to do concurrent multi-part uploads to S3 with retry and resume recording function if it gets interrupted while uploading

Snapshots - Backup/Restore requirements

2015-10-12 Thread Jason Turner
We have recently created production ready Cassandra clusters and we are currently trying to create and implement a robust Backup/Restore process. We are hosting our Cassandra VMs in AWS and we understand the Snapshot process, but we are unclear on the best way to get Snapshots backed up off the

Re: Snapshots - Backup/Restore requirements

2015-10-12 Thread Robert Coli
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Jeff Ferland wrote: > I have a semi-hacky Python script I’ve written up. It needs refining for > public use, but I’ll put it in Github later today and send you a link as I > work on it. It uses boto to do concurrent multi-part uploads to S3

Re: Snapshots - Backup/Restore requirements

2015-10-12 Thread Jeff Ferland
Yeah, that’s got plenty of promise looking at it the 2nd time around. What turned me off from using it was the combination of not having a single-shot backup mode and appearing to only run in inotify mode which would just chuck in every compaction. It looks like when reading it through its

Re: Snapshots - Backup/Restore requirements

2015-10-12 Thread Robert Coli
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Jeff Ferland wrote: > Yeah, that’s got plenty of promise looking at it the 2nd time around. What > turned me off from using it was the combination of not having a single-shot > backup mode and appearing to only run in inotify mode which