Hi Will, http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Backing_up_data
<http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Backing_up_data>If the snapshot is written to the ephemeral storage ... there isn't a cost. (i need to confirm that) You can then move this to an S3 bucket with RDS if you want or full 99.999999999% redundancy and have it available to developers This is what I had in my head.... -sd On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:39 PM, William Oberman <ober...@civicscience.com>wrote: > I thought nodetool snapshot writes the snapshot locally, requiring 2x of > expensive storage allocation 24x7 (vs. cheap storage allocation of a ebs > snapshot). By that I mean EBS allocation is GB allocated per month costs at > one rate, and EBS snapshots are delta compressed copies to S3. > > Can you point the snapshot to an external filesystem? > > will > >
