Re: Basic Copy vs Snapshot for backup

If you backup the current state of the sstables at the time you upload the new sstables, you can keep a running point-in-time view without an explicit snapshot. This is similar to what tablesnap does ( https://github.com/JeremyGrosser/tablesnap ) On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Ben Slater

Re: Basic Copy vs Snapshot for backup

The snapshot gives you a complete set of your sstables at a point in time. If you were copying sstables directly from a live node you would have to deal with files coming and going due to compactions. Cheers Ben On Thu, 10 May 2018 at 16:45 wrote: > Dear Community, > >

Basic Copy vs Snapshot for backup

Dear Community, Is there any benefit of taking backup of a node via 'nodetool snapshot' vs simply copying the data directory other than the fact that snapshot will first flush the memTable and then take the backup. Thanks and regards, Vishal Sharma "Confidentiality Warning: This message and