[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-3453) cassandra.yaml needs a snapshot_directory setting

["Matthew F. Dennis (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Matthew F. Dennis commented on CASSANDRA-3453:
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we provide a setting for controlling the data directories, which is currently a parent of all the snapshots directories, so you already have the referenced problems (i.e. checking a setting to find out where your snapshots are and potentially forgetting to update it on a new machine).

Furthermore, if I have N out of M keyspaces I want to snapshot and backup (or bulk load to another cluster or ...) after the snapshot I have to remember each keyspace so I can then construct a path to each snapshot (e.g. /path/from/data_dir/setting/$ks_name/snapshots/$snapshot_name) in order to do what I wanted to do with the snapshots instead of knowing everything I care about is in one place (e.g. /path/from/snapshot_dir/setting/$snapshot_name).


                
> cassandra.yaml needs a snapshot_directory setting
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-3453
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3453
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Matthew F. Dennis
>
> cassandra.yaml really needs a config option for a snapshot directory. by default it should be a peer folder with saved_caches, commitlog and data.
> assuming the value of that setting is /some/path/snapshot_dir then snapshots would go into: /some/path/snapshot_dir/snapshot_name/keyspace_name/
> this makes automation, particularly around backups, much easier and gives more control to ops

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