Aaron,
Can this also be considered?
Connect to node using cassandra-cliuse system;set
LocationInfo[utf8('L')][utf8('ClusterName')]=utf8('<new cluster
name>');exit;Run nodetool flush on the nodeUpdate cassandra.yaml file with new
cluster_nameRestart node.
Thanks,SC
From: aa...@thelastpickle.com
Subject: Re: change cluster name retaining keypsace
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:21:28 +1300
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
To change the cluster name:
1) Stop all nodes. 2) Delete or move the LocationInfo sstables from
/var/log/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo3) Change the cluster_name in
cassandra.yaml4) Restart the nodes.
You cannot do an incremental change of the cluster name. All nodes in the
cluster must have the same name.
By only deleting the LocationInfo CF your schema will be preserved. You do not
have to move / delete any of the user data.
Hope that helps.
-----------------Aaron MortonFreelance Cassandra DeveloperNew Zealand
@aaronmortonhttp://www.thelastpickle.com
On 10/01/2013, at 6:50 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com> wrote:Hello,
I'm attempting to change my cluster name, yet retain my keyspace as it was. I
know from what I've read that this requires changing it within the cassandra
cli (using system), changing it in the cassandra.yaml file, and deleting the
contents of the /var/lib/cassandra/data/system directory. Then restart
cassandra.
This does work. I am able to change my cluster name this way. But of course,
since I deleted my system information I have lost all reference to my keyspace.
My app does not work and a show keyspaces within the cassandra-cli does not
show the keyspace. This does make a certain amount of sense to me as I realize
that the system kesyspace directory does contain information on the keyspaces
within this cassandra node.
So what I did was create a snapshot of my keyspace (joke_fire1) with the
command nodetool -h localhost -p 7199 joke_fire1.
I then re-create the keyspace within the cassandra cli and copy just the .*db
files back to the keyspace directory. But that doesn't work a describe keyspace
does not show my column families and my app doesn't work.
I even tried creating a tar archive of the keyspace directory and then rsyncing
the entire contents of the tar archive to the keyspace directory after creating
the keyspace with the same name in the casssandra-cli. Still no good.
I was wondering if I could get some advice on how to change my cluster name and
yet either retain or restore from backup properly my keyspace as it was before
the cluster name change.
I tried following the backup and restore advice from both this guide:
http://jonathanhui.com/cassandra-data-maintenance-backup-and-system-recovery
And this guide:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/operations/backup_restore
I'm running cassandra 1.1.8.
ThanksTim
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