On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Emalayan Vairavanathan <svemala...@yahoo.com> wrote: > In the case where replace a cassandra node (call it node A) with another one > that has the exact same IP (ie. during a node failure), what exactly should > we do? Currently I understand that we should at least run "nodetool > repair".
If you lost the data from the node, then what you want is "replace_token." If you didn't lose the data from the node (and can tolerate stale reads until the repair completes) you want to start the node with auto_bootstrap set to false and then repair. =Rob
