Backup/Restore: Coordinating Cassandra Nodetool Snapshots with Amazon EBS Snapshots?

2011-06-22 Thread Thoku Hansen
I have a couple of questions regarding the coordination of Cassandra nodetool snapshots with Amazon EBS snapshots as part of a Cassandra backup/restore strategy. Background: I have a cluster running in EC2. Its nodes are configured like so: * Instance type: m1.xlarge * Cassandra commit log

Re: 99.999% uptime - Operations Best Practices?

2011-06-22 Thread Thoku Hansen
I think that Les's question was reasonable. Why *not* ask the community for the 'gotchas'? Whether the info is already documented or not, it could be an opportunity to improve the documentation based on users' perception. The you just have to learn responses are fair also, but that reminds me