You need to upgrade first to C* 2.2 before migrating to C* 3.x For each version, read the NEWS.txt file and follow the procedure:
>From 2.1.x to 2.2.x : https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-2.2/NEWS.txt >From 2.2.x to 3.x: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-3.0/NEWS.txt On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Ajaya Agrawal <ajku....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie when it comes to Cassandra administration and operation. We > have a single node cluster running 2.1 in EC2 and we are planning to move > it to better single machine instance and want to run 3.2 on that. > > I installed 3.2 on the new machine and created a snapshot of the old > cluster and then copied over all the relevant directories to the new > machine in the appropriate directory. Specifically I copied > "/var/lib/cassandra/data/{keyspace} from old machine to the new machine. > Before that I created relevant schema in the new cluster. I was hoping that > Cassandra would see new directories and load up the new copied SSTables > automatically. At the least I was hoping to see the snapshot created in the > old cluster, when I did a "nodetool listsnapshots" in the new cluster. > > I have also changed the name of the new cluster. > > Please help me and let me know if I forgot to add any detail. > > Cheers, > Ajaya >
