John - Why not just just follow the process for replacing a dead node? Why do you need to use the same IP? e.g. JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Dcassandra.replace_address=address_of_dead_node
http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/operations/ops_replace_node_t.html <http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/operations/ops_replace_node_t.html> Johnny > On 9 Nov 2015, at 05:11, John Wong <gokoproj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > We are running Cassandra 1.2.19, and we are AWS customer, so we store our > data in ephemeral storage. > > If we recreate an instance with the same IP, what is the best way to get the > node up and running with the previous data? Right now I am relying on backup. > > I was hoping that we can stream the data, but nodetool rebuild is for > bringing up a new data center. I just re-created the instance and I don't see > much going on except keyspaces are being re-created with some data file. I > thought Cassandra would automatically stream data from replicas... > > Ideas? > Thanks. > > John
