I haven't done backups yet, so I don't know where the data is written. Is it where the nodetool is run from? Or local to the instance running cassandra (and there, local to the data directory?). I assumed it was the latter (not finding docs on that yet), and that would require 2x storage allocated on that instance for 1x data (to have room for the snapshot). If its the former, then yes, I'd totally run the command from an ephemeral store, and backup to S3.
will On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Sasha Dolgy <sdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> -- Will Oberman Civic Science, Inc. 3030 Penn Avenue., First Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15201 (M) 412-480-7835 (E) ober...@civicscience.com
