Could you not nodetool snapshot the data into an mounted ebs/s3 bucket and satisfy your development requirement? -sd
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM, William Oberman <ober...@civicscience.com>wrote: > For me, to transition production data into a development environment for > real world testing. Also, backups are never a bad idea, though I agree most > all risk is mitigated due to cassandra's design. > > will > >