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Posted to user@cassandra.apache.org by S C <as...@outlook.com> on 2013/02/09 17:29:10 UTC

question on incremental backup

At what point is it ok to move the incremental back up from the server to offsite?Is it recommended to flush the node before doing this?

Thanks,SC

Re: question on incremental backup

Posted by Edward Capriolo <ed...@gmail.com>.

SSTables are write once. As soon as they appear on disk they ARE
flushed. This means you can safely copy them away. You should run
nodetool snapshot first and copy those hardlinks, because this will
guarantee that the file will not be compacted away while you are
copying it.

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:29 AM, S C <as...@outlook.com> wrote:
> At what point is it ok to move the incremental back up from the server to
> offsite?
> Is it recommended to flush the node before doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> SC