On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That sounds fine, with the caveat that you can't run sstableloader > from a machine running Cassandra before 1.1, so copying the sstables > manually (assuming both clusters are the same size and have the same > tokens) might be better. > Why is version 1.1 required for sstableloader? We're running 1.0.x on both clusters, but we can of course upgrade if that's required. > > The only issue with this is the timestamps of the data and tombstones in > > each sstable, will they be preserved by sstableloader? What about > deletes of > > non-existing keys? Will they be stored in the Linux cluster so that when > > sstableloader inserts the key later, it's resolved as being deleted? > > None of that should be a problem. > Excellent, thanks! /Henrik