You can just delete them off the filesystem (rm) On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:02 AM Kunal Gangakhedkar <kgangakhed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > We have a 3-node cassandra cluster with incremental backup set to true. > Each node has 1TB data volume that stores cassandra data. > > The load in the output of 'nodetool status' comes up at around 260GB each > node. > All our keyspaces use replication factor = 3. > > However, the df output shows the data volumes consuming around 850GB of > space. > I checked the keyspace directory structures - most of the space goes in > <CASS_DATA_VOL>/data/<KEYSPACE>/<CF>/backups. > > We have never manually run snapshots. > > What is the typical procedure to clear the backups? > Can it be done without taking the node offline? > > Thanks, > Kunal >
