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[1/2] cassandra git commit: Adding documentation for sstable tools

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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/blob/c2c43f81/doc/source/tools/sstable/sstableverify.rst
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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstableverify
+-------------
+
+Check sstable(s) for errors or corruption, for the provided table.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5791
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+sstableverify <options> <keyspace> <table>
+
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+--debug                                               display stack traces
+-e, --extended                                        extended verification
+-h, --help                                            display this help message
+-v, --verbose                                         verbose output
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+
+Basic Verification
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This is the basic verification. It is not a very quick process, and uses memory. You might need to increase your memory settings if you have many sstables.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableverify keyspace eventlog
+    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db') (7.353MiB)
+    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
+    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
+    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db') (3.775MiB)
+    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')
+    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')
+
+Extended Verification
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+During an extended verification, the individual values will be validated for errors or corruption. This of course takes more time.
+
+Example::
+
+    root@DC1C1:/# sstableverify -e keyspace eventlog
+    WARN  14:08:06,255 Only 33.096GiB free across all data volumes. Consider adding more capacity to your cluster or removing obsolete snapshots
+    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db') (7.353MiB)
+    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
+    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
+    Extended Verify requested, proceeding to inspect values
+    Verify of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db') succeeded. All 33211 rows read successfully
+    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db') (3.775MiB)
+    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')
+    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')
+    Extended Verify requested, proceeding to inspect values
+    Verify of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db') succeeded. All 17068 rows read successfully
+
+Corrupted File
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Corrupted files are listed if they are detected by the script.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableverify keyspace eventlog
+    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db') (7.416MiB)
+    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db')
+    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db')
+    Error verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db'): Corrupted: /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db
+
+A similar (but less verbose) tool will show the suggested actions::
+
+    nodetool verify keyspace eventlog
+    error: Invalid SSTable /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db, please force repair
+
+
+


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[2/2] cassandra git commit: Adding documentation for sstable tools

Posted by jj...@apache.org.
Adding documentation for sstable tools

Patch by Valerie Parham-Thompson; reviewed by pedro vidigal and Jeff Jirsa for CASSANDRA-14289


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/commit/c2c43f81
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/tree/c2c43f81
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/diff/c2c43f81

Branch: refs/heads/trunk
Commit: c2c43f814994fe0be6964b3ab0d15ea838aa1000
Parents: 2046c30
Author: Valerie Parham-Thompson <pa...@pythian.com>
Authored: Thu Sep 13 15:42:06 2018 -0400
Committer: Jeff Jirsa <jj...@apple.com>
Committed: Thu Sep 13 15:36:11 2018 -0700

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 doc/source/tools/index.rst                      |   3 +-
 doc/source/tools/sstable/index.rst              |  39 +++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstabledump.rst        | 294 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../tools/sstable/sstableexpiredblockers.rst    |  48 +++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstablelevelreset.rst  |  82 +++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstableloader.rst      | 273 +++++++++++++++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstablemetadata.rst    | 300 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../tools/sstable/sstableofflinerelevel.rst     |  95 ++++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstablerepairedset.rst |  79 +++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstablescrub.rst       |  93 ++++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstablesplit.rst       |  93 ++++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstableupgrade.rst     | 137 +++++++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstableutil.rst        |  91 ++++++
 doc/source/tools/sstable/sstableverify.rst      |  91 ++++++
 14 files changed, 1717 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/blob/c2c43f81/doc/source/tools/index.rst
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@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ Cassandra Tools
 This section describes the command line tools provided with Apache Cassandra.
 
 .. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 1
+   :maxdepth: 3
 
    cqlsh
    nodetool/nodetool
+   sstable/index
    cassandra_stress

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/blob/c2c43f81/doc/source/tools/sstable/index.rst
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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+SSTable Tools
+=============
+
+This section describes the functionality of the various sstable tools.
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before these tools are executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the scripts do not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   sstabledump
+   sstableexpiredblockers
+   sstablelevelreset
+   sstableloader
+   sstablemetadata
+   sstableofflinerelevel
+   sstablerepairedset
+   sstablescrub
+   sstablesplit
+   sstableupgrade
+   sstableutil
+   sstableverify
+

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/blob/c2c43f81/doc/source/tools/sstable/sstabledump.rst
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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstabledump
+-----------
+
+Dump contents of a given SSTable to standard output in JSON format.
+
+You must supply exactly one sstable. 
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+sstabledump <options> <sstable file path> 
+
+===================================     ================================================================================
+-d                                      CQL row per line internal representation
+-e                                      Enumerate partition keys only
+-k <arg>                                Partition key
+-x <arg>                                Excluded partition key(s)
+-t                                      Print raw timestamps instead of iso8601 date strings
+-l                                      Output each row as a separate JSON object
+===================================     ================================================================================
+
+If necessary, use sstableutil first to find out the sstables used by a table.
+
+Dump entire table
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Dump the entire table without any options.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstabledump /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db > eventlog_dump_2018Jul26
+
+    cat eventlog_dump_2018Jul26
+    [
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "3578d7de-c60d-4599-aefb-3f22a07b2bc6" ],
+          "position" : 0
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 61,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:23:08.378711Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:23:08.384Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "d18250c0-84fc-4d40-b957-4248dc9d790e" ],
+          "position" : 62
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 123,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:23:07.783522Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:23:07.789Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "cf188983-d85b-48d6-9365-25005289beb2" ],
+          "position" : 124
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 182,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:22:27.028809Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:22:27.055Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+
+Dump table in a more manageable format
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Use the -l option to dump each row as a separate JSON object. This will make the output easier to manipulate for large data sets. ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13848
+
+Example::
+
+    sstabledump /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db -l > eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_justlines
+
+    cat eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_justlines
+    [
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "3578d7de-c60d-4599-aefb-3f22a07b2bc6" ],
+          "position" : 0
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 61,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:23:08.378711Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:23:08.384Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "d18250c0-84fc-4d40-b957-4248dc9d790e" ],
+          "position" : 62
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 123,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:23:07.783522Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:23:07.789Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "cf188983-d85b-48d6-9365-25005289beb2" ],
+          "position" : 124
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 182,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:22:27.028809Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:22:27.055Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+
+Dump only keys
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Dump only the keys by using the -e option.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstabledump /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db -e > eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_justkeys
+
+    cat eventlog_dump_2018Jul26b
+    [ [ "3578d7de-c60d-4599-aefb-3f22a07b2bc6" ], [ "d18250c0-84fc-4d40-b957-4248dc9d790e" ], [ "cf188983-d85b-48d6-9365-25005289beb2" ]
+
+Dump row for a single key
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Dump a single key using the -k option.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstabledump /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db -k 3578d7de-c60d-4599-aefb-3f22a07b2bc6 > eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_singlekey
+
+    cat eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_singlekey
+    [
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "3578d7de-c60d-4599-aefb-3f22a07b2bc6" ],
+          "position" : 0
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 61,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:23:08.378711Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:23:08.384Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+
+Exclude a key or keys in dump of rows
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Dump a table except for the rows excluded with the -x option. Multiple keys can be used.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstabledump /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db -x 3578d7de-c60d-4599-aefb-3f22a07b2bc6 d18250c0-84fc-4d40-b957-4248dc9d790e  > eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_excludekeys
+
+    cat eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_excludekeys
+    [
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "cf188983-d85b-48d6-9365-25005289beb2" ],
+          "position" : 0
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 182,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2018-07-20T20:22:27.028809Z" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:22:27.055Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+
+Display raw timestamps
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+By default, dates are displayed in iso8601 date format. Using the -t option will dump the data with the raw timestamp.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstabledump /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db -t -k cf188983-d85b-48d6-9365-25005289beb2 > eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_times
+
+    cat eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_times
+    [
+      {
+        "partition" : {
+          "key" : [ "cf188983-d85b-48d6-9365-25005289beb2" ],
+          "position" : 124
+        },
+        "rows" : [
+          {
+            "type" : "row",
+            "position" : 182,
+            "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "1532118147028809" },
+            "cells" : [
+              { "name" : "event", "value" : "party" },
+              { "name" : "insertedtimestamp", "value" : "2018-07-20 20:22:27.055Z" },
+              { "name" : "source", "value" : "asdf" }
+            ]
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+
+
+Display internal structure in output
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Dump the table in a format that reflects the internal structure.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstabledump /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db -d > eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_d
+
+    cat eventlog_dump_2018Jul26_d
+    [3578d7de-c60d-4599-aefb-3f22a07b2bc6]@0 Row[info=[ts=1532118188378711] ]:  | [event=party ts=1532118188378711], [insertedtimestamp=2018-07-20 20:23Z ts=1532118188378711], [source=asdf ts=1532118188378711]
+    [d18250c0-84fc-4d40-b957-4248dc9d790e]@62 Row[info=[ts=1532118187783522] ]:  | [event=party ts=1532118187783522], [insertedtimestamp=2018-07-20 20:23Z ts=1532118187783522], [source=asdf ts=1532118187783522]
+    [cf188983-d85b-48d6-9365-25005289beb2]@124 Row[info=[ts=1532118147028809] ]:  | [event=party ts=1532118147028809], [insertedtimestamp=2018-07-20 20:22Z ts=1532118147028809], [source=asdf ts=1532118147028809]
+
+
+
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstableexpiredblockers
+----------------------
+
+During compaction, entire sstables can be dropped if they contain only expired tombstones, and if it is guaranteed that the data is not newer than the data in other sstables. An expired sstable can be blocked from getting dropped if its newest timestamp is newer than the oldest data in another sstable.
+
+This tool is used to list all sstables that are blocking other sstables from getting dropped (by having older data than the newest tombstone in an expired sstable) so a user can figure out why certain sstables are still on disk.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10015
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+
+sstableexpiredblockers <keyspace> <table>
+
+Output blocked sstables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If the sstables exist for the table, but no tables have older data than the newest tombstone in an expired sstable, the script will return nothing.
+
+Otherwise, the script will return `<sstable> blocks <#> expired sstables from getting dropped` followed by a list of the blocked sstables.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableexpiredblockers keyspace1 standard1
+
+    [BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-0665ae80b2d711e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-2-big-Data.db') (minTS = 5, maxTS = 5, maxLDT = 2147483647)],  blocks 1 expired sstables from getting dropped: [BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-0665ae80b2d711e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-3-big-Data.db') (minTS = 1536349775157606, maxTS = 1536349780311159, maxLDT = 1536349780)],
+
+    [BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-0665ae80b2d711e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-1-big-Data.db') (minTS = 1, maxTS = 10, maxLDT = 2147483647)],  blocks 1 expired sstables from getting dropped: [BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-0665ae80b2d711e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-3-big-Data.db') (minTS = 1536349775157606, maxTS = 1536349780311159, maxLDT = 1536349780)],
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstablelevelreset
+-----------------
+
+If LeveledCompactionStrategy is set, this script can be used to reset level to 0 on a given set of sstables. This is useful if you want to, for example, change the minimum sstable size, and therefore restart the compaction process using this new configuration.
+
+See http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/operating/compaction.html#leveled-compaction-strategy for information on how levels are used in this compaction strategy.
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5271
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+
+sstablelevelreset --really-reset <keyspace> <table>
+
+The really-reset flag is required, to ensure this intrusive command is not run accidentally.
+
+Table not found
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If the keyspace and/or table is not in the schema (e.g., if you misspelled the table name), the script will return an error.
+
+Example:: 
+
+    ColumnFamily not found: keyspace/evenlog.
+
+Table has no sstables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Example::
+
+    Found no sstables, did you give the correct keyspace/table?
+
+
+Table already at level 0
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The script will not set the level if it is already set to 0.
+
+Example::
+
+    Skipped /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-65c429e08c5a11e8939edf4f403979ef/mc-1-big-Data.db since it is already on level 0
+
+Table levels reduced to 0
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If the level is not already 0, then this will reset it to 0.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablemetadata /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-8-big-Data.db | grep -i level
+    SSTable Level: 1
+
+    sstablelevelreset --really-reset keyspace eventlog
+    Changing level from 1 to 0 on /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-8-big-Data.db
+
+    sstablemetadata /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-8-big-Data.db | grep -i level
+    SSTable Level: 0
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstableloader
+---------------
+
+Bulk-load the sstables found in the directory <dir_path> to the configured cluster. The parent directories of <dir_path> are used as the target keyspace/table name. For example, to load an sstable named ma-1-big-Data.db into keyspace1/standard1, you will need to have the files ma-1-big-Data.db and ma-1-big-Index.db in a directory /path/to/keyspace1/standard1/. The tool will create new sstables, and does not clean up your copied files.
+
+Several of the options listed below don't work quite as intended, and in those cases, workarounds are mentioned for specific use cases. 
+
+To avoid having the sstable files to be loaded compacted while reading them, place the files in an alternate keyspace/table path than the data directory.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1278
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+
+sstableloader <options> <dir_path>
+
+===================================================   ================================================================================
+-d, --nodes <initial hosts>                           Required. Try to connect to these hosts (comma-separated) 
+                                                      initially for ring information
+-u, --username <username>                             username for Cassandra authentication
+-pw, --password <password>                            password for Cassandra authentication
+-p, --port <native transport port>                    port used for native connection (default 9042)
+-sp, --storage-port <storage port>                    port used for internode communication (default 7000)
+-ssp, --ssl-storage-port <ssl storage port>           port used for TLS internode communication (default 7001)
+--no-progress                                         don't display progress
+-t, --throttle <throttle>                             throttle speed in Mbits (default unlimited)
+-idct, --inter-dc-throttle <inter-dc-throttle>        inter-datacenter throttle speed in Mbits (default unlimited)
+-cph, --connections-per-host <connectionsPerHost>     number of concurrent connections-per-host
+-i, --ignore <NODES>                                  don't stream to this (comma separated) list of nodes
+-alg, --ssl-alg <ALGORITHM>                           Client SSL: algorithm (default: SunX509)
+-ciphers, --ssl-ciphers <CIPHER-SUITES>               Client SSL: comma-separated list of encryption suites to use
+-ks, --keystore <KEYSTORE>                            Client SSL: full path to keystore
+-kspw, --keystore-password <KEYSTORE-PASSWORD>        Client SSL: password of the keystore
+-st, --store-type <STORE-TYPE>                        Client SSL: type of store
+-ts, --truststore <TRUSTSTORE>                        Client SSL: full path to truststore
+-tspw, --truststore-password <TRUSTSTORE-PASSWORD>    Client SSL: password of the truststore
+-prtcl, --ssl-protocol <PROTOCOL>                     Client SSL: connections protocol to use (default: TLS)
+-ap, --auth-provider <auth provider>                  custom AuthProvider class name for cassandra authentication
+-f, --conf-path <path to config file>                 cassandra.yaml file path for streaming throughput and client/server SSL
+-v, --verbose                                         verbose output
+-h, --help                                            display this help message
+===================================================   ================================================================================
+
+You can provide a cassandra.yaml file with the -f command line option to set up streaming throughput, and client and server encryption options. Only stream_throughput_outbound_megabits_per_sec, server_encryption_options, and client_encryption_options are read from yaml. You can override options read from cassandra.yaml with corresponding command line options.
+
+Load sstables from a Snapshot
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Copy the snapshot sstables into an accessible directory and use sstableloader to restore them.
+
+Example::
+
+    cp snapshots/1535397029191/* /path/to/keyspace1/standard1/
+
+    sstableloader --nodes 172.17.0.2 /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/
+    Established connection to initial hosts
+    Opening sstables and calculating sections to stream
+    Streaming relevant part of /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/ma-3-big-Data.db to [/172.17.0.2]
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:1/1 100% total: 100% 0  MB/s(avg: 1 MB/s)
+    Summary statistics:
+       Connections per host:         : 1
+       Total files transferred:      : 1
+       Total bytes transferred:      : 4700000
+       Total duration (ms):          : 4390
+       Average transfer rate (MB/s): : 1
+       Peak transfer rate (MB/s):    : 1
+
+The -d or --nodes option is required, or the script will not run.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableloader /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/
+    Initial hosts must be specified (-d)
+
+Use a Config File for SSL Clusters
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If SSL encryption is enabled in the cluster, use the --conf-path option with sstableloader to point the tool to the cassandra.yaml with the relevant server_encryption_options (e.g., truststore location, algorithm). This will work better than passing individual ssl options shown above to sstableloader on the command line.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableloader --nodes 172.17.0.2 --conf-path /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-0974e5a0aa5811e8a0a06d2c86545d91/snapshots/
+    Established connection to initial hosts
+    Opening sstables and calculating sections to stream
+    Streaming relevant part of /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-0974e5a0aa5811e8a0a06d2c86545d91/mc-1-big-Data.db  to [/172.17.0.2]
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:0/1 1  % total: 1% 9.165KiB/s (avg: 9.165KiB/s)
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:0/1 2  % total: 2% 5.147MiB/s (avg: 18.299KiB/s)
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:0/1 4  % total: 4% 9.751MiB/s (avg: 27.423KiB/s)
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:0/1 5  % total: 5% 8.203MiB/s (avg: 36.524KiB/s)
+    ...
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:1/1 100% total: 100% 0.000KiB/s (avg: 480.513KiB/s)
+
+    Summary statistics:
+       Connections per host    : 1
+       Total files transferred : 1
+       Total bytes transferred : 4.387MiB
+       Total duration          : 9356 ms
+       Average transfer rate   : 480.105KiB/s
+       Peak transfer rate      : 586.410KiB/s
+
+Hide Progress Output
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To hide the output of progress and the summary statistics (e.g., if you wanted to use this tool in a script), use the --no-progress option.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableloader --nodes 172.17.0.2 --no-progress /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/
+    Established connection to initial hosts
+    Opening sstables and calculating sections to stream
+    Streaming relevant part of /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/ma-4-big-Data.db to [/172.17.0.2]
+
+Get More Detail
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Using the --verbose option will provide much more progress output.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableloader --nodes 172.17.0.2 --verbose /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-0974e5a0aa5811e8a0a06d2c86545d91/
+    Established connection to initial hosts
+    Opening sstables and calculating sections to stream
+    Streaming relevant part of /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-0974e5a0aa5811e8a0a06d2c86545d91/mc-1-big-Data.db  to [/172.17.0.2]
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:0/1 1  % total: 1% 12.056KiB/s (avg: 12.056KiB/s)
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:0/1 2  % total: 2% 9.092MiB/s (avg: 24.081KiB/s)
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+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:1/1 100% total: 100% 0.000KiB/s (avg: 670.295KiB/s)
+
+    Summary statistics:
+       Connections per host    : 1
+       Total files transferred : 1
+       Total bytes transferred : 4.387MiB
+       Total duration          : 6706 ms
+       Average transfer rate   : 669.835KiB/s
+       Peak transfer rate      : 767.802KiB/s
+
+
+Throttling Load
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To prevent the table loader from overloading the system resources, you can throttle the process with the --throttle option. The default is unlimited (no throttling). Throttle units are in megabits. Note that the total duration is increased in the example below.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableloader --nodes 172.17.0.2 --throttle 1 /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/
+    Established connection to initial hosts
+    Opening sstables and calculating sections to stream
+    Streaming relevant part of /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/ma-6-big-Data.db to [/172.17.0.2]
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:1/1 100% total: 100% 0  MB/s(avg: 0 MB/s)
+    Summary statistics:
+       Connections per host:         : 1
+       Total files transferred:      : 1
+       Total bytes transferred:      : 4595705
+       Total duration (ms):          : 37634
+       Average transfer rate (MB/s): : 0
+       Peak transfer rate (MB/s):    : 0
+
+Speeding up Load
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To speed up the load process, the number of connections per host can be increased.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableloader --nodes 172.17.0.2 --connections-per-host 100 /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/
+    Established connection to initial hosts
+    Opening sstables and calculating sections to stream
+    Streaming relevant part of /var/lib/cassandra/loadme/keyspace1/standard1-f8a4fa30aa2a11e8af27091830ac5256/ma-9-big-Data.db to [/172.17.0.2]
+    progress: [/172.17.0.2]0:1/1 100% total: 100% 0  MB/s(avg: 1 MB/s)
+    Summary statistics:
+       Connections per host:         : 100
+       Total files transferred:      : 1
+       Total bytes transferred:      : 4595705
+       Total duration (ms):          : 3486
+       Average transfer rate (MB/s): : 1
+       Peak transfer rate (MB/s):    : 1
+
+This small data set doesn't benefit much from the increase in connections per host, but note that the total duration has decreased in this example.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstablemetadata
+---------------
+
+Print information about an sstable from the related Statistics.db and Summary.db files to standard output.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7159 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10838
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+
+sstablemetadata <options> <sstable filename(s)>
+
+=========================        ================================================================================
+--gc_grace_seconds <arg>         The gc_grace_seconds to use when calculating droppable tombstones
+=========================        ================================================================================
+
+Print all the metadata
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Run sstablemetadata against the *Data.db file(s) related to a table. If necessary, find the *Data.db file(s) using sstableutil.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableutil keyspace1 standard1 | grep Data
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-f6845640a6cb11e8b6836d2c86545d91/mc-1-big-Data.db
+
+    sstablemetadata /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-f6845640a6cb11e8b6836d2c86545d91/mc-1-big-Data.db
+
+    SSTable: /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-f6845640a6cb11e8b6836d2c86545d91/mc-1-big
+    Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
+    Bloom Filter FP chance: 0.010000
+    Minimum timestamp: 1535025576141000
+    Maximum timestamp: 1535025604309000
+    SSTable min local deletion time: 2147483647
+    SSTable max local deletion time: 2147483647
+    Compressor: org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.LZ4Compressor
+    TTL min: 86400
+    TTL max: 86400
+    First token: -9223004712949498654 (key=39373333373831303130)
+    Last token: 9222554117157811897 (key=4f3438394e39374d3730)
+    Estimated droppable tombstones: 0.9188263888888889
+    SSTable Level: 0
+    Repaired at: 0
+    Replay positions covered: {CommitLogPosition(segmentId=1535025390651, position=226400)=CommitLogPosition(segmentId=1535025390651, position=6849139)}
+    totalColumnsSet: 100000
+    totalRows: 20000
+    Estimated tombstone drop times:
+    1535039100:     80390
+    1535039160:      5645
+    1535039220:     13965
+    Count               Row Size        Cell Count
+    1                          0                 0
+    2                          0                 0
+    3                          0                 0
+    4                          0                 0
+    5                          0             20000
+    6                          0                 0
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+    7152383774                 0
+    8582860529                 0
+    10299432635                 0
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+    14831182994                 0
+    17797419593                 0
+    21356903512                 0
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+    30753941057                 0
+    36904729268                 0
+    44285675122                 0
+    53142810146                 0
+    63771372175                 0
+    76525646610                 0
+    91830775932                 0
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+    132236317342                 0
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+    394855527800                 0
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+    818772422446                 0
+    982526906935                 0
+    1179032288322                 0
+    1414838745986                 0
+    Estimated cardinality: 20196
+    EncodingStats minTTL: 0
+    EncodingStats minLocalDeletionTime: 1442880000
+    EncodingStats minTimestamp: 1535025565275000
+    KeyType: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
+    ClusteringTypes: [org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type]
+    StaticColumns: {C3:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType, C4:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType, C0:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType, C1:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType, C2:org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType}
+    RegularColumns: {}
+
+Specify gc grace seconds
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To see the ratio of droppable tombstones given a configured gc grace seconds, use the gc_grace_seconds option. Because the sstablemetadata tool doesn't access the schema directly, this is a way to more accurately estimate droppable tombstones -- for example, if you pass in gc_grace_seconds matching what is configured in the schema. The gc_grace_seconds value provided is subtracted from the curent machine time (in seconds). 
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12208
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablemetadata /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep "Estimated tombstone drop times" -A4
+    Estimated tombstone drop times:
+    1536599100:         1
+    1536599640:         1
+    1536599700:         2
+
+    echo $(date +%s)
+    1536602005
+
+    # if gc_grace_seconds was configured at 100, all of the tombstones would be currently droppable 
+    sstablemetadata --gc_grace_seconds 100 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep "Estimated droppable tombstones"
+    Estimated droppable tombstones: 4.0E-5
+
+    # if gc_grace_seconds was configured at 4700, some of the tombstones would be currently droppable 
+    sstablemetadata --gc_grace_seconds 4700 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep "Estimated droppable tombstones"
+    Estimated droppable tombstones: 9.61111111111111E-6
+
+    # if gc_grace_seconds was configured at 100, none of the tombstones would be currently droppable 
+    sstablemetadata --gc_grace_seconds 5000 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep "Estimated droppable tombstones"
+    Estimated droppable tombstones: 0.0
+
+Explanation of each value printed above
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+===================================  ================================================================================
+   Value                             Explanation
+===================================  ================================================================================
+SSTable                              prefix of the sstable filenames related to this sstable
+Partitioner                          partitioner type used to distribute data across nodes; defined in cassandra.yaml  
+Bloom Filter FP                      precision of Bloom filter used in reads; defined in the table definition   
+Minimum timestamp                    minimum timestamp of any entry in this sstable, in epoch microseconds  
+Maximum timestamp                    maximum timestamp of any entry in this sstable, in epoch microseconds
+SSTable min local deletion time      minimum timestamp of deletion date, based on TTL, in epoch seconds
+SSTable max local deletion time      maximum timestamp of deletion date, based on TTL, in epoch seconds
+Compressor                           blank (-) by default; if not blank, indicates type of compression enabled on the table
+TTL min                              time-to-live in seconds; default 0 unless defined in the table definition
+TTL max                              time-to-live in seconds; default 0 unless defined in the table definition
+First token                          lowest token and related key found in the sstable summary
+Last token                           highest token and related key found in the sstable summary
+Estimated droppable tombstones       ratio of tombstones to columns, using configured gc grace seconds if relevant
+SSTable level                        compaction level of this sstable, if leveled compaction (LCS) is used
+Repaired at                          the timestamp this sstable was marked as repaired via sstablerepairedset, in epoch milliseconds
+Replay positions covered             the interval of time and commitlog positions related to this sstable
+totalColumnsSet                      number of cells in the table
+totalRows                            number of rows in the table
+Estimated tombstone drop times       approximate number of rows that will expire, ordered by epoch seconds
+Count  Row Size  Cell Count          two histograms in two columns; one represents distribution of Row Size 
+                                     and the other represents distribution of Cell Count
+Estimated cardinality                an estimate of unique values, used for compaction
+EncodingStats* minTTL                in epoch milliseconds
+EncodingStats* minLocalDeletionTime  in epoch seconds
+EncodingStats* minTimestamp          in epoch microseconds
+KeyType                              the type of partition key, useful in reading and writing data 
+                                     from/to storage; defined in the table definition
+ClusteringTypes                      the type of clustering key, useful in reading and writing data 
+                                     from/to storage; defined in the table definition
+StaticColumns                        a list of the shared columns in the table
+RegularColumns                       a list of non-static, non-key columns in the table
+===================================  ================================================================================
+* For the encoding stats values, the delta of this and the current epoch time is used when encoding and storing data in the most optimal way.
+
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstableofflinerelevel
+---------------------
+
+When using LeveledCompactionStrategy, sstables can get stuck at L0 on a recently bootstrapped node, and compactions may never catch up. This tool is used to bump sstables into the highest level possible.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8301
+
+The way this is done is: sstables are storted by their last token. Given an original leveling like this (note that [ ] indicates token boundaries, not sstable size on disk; all sstables are the same size)::
+
+    L3 [][][][][][][][][][][]
+    L2 [    ][    ][    ][  ]
+    L1 [          ][        ]
+    L0 [                    ]
+
+Will look like this after being dropped to L0 and sorted by last token (and, to illustrate overlap, the overlapping ones are put on a new line)::
+
+    [][][]
+    [    ][][][]
+        [    ]
+    [          ]
+    ...
+
+Then, we start iterating from the smallest last-token and adding all sstables that do not cause an overlap to a level. We will reconstruct the original leveling top-down. Whenever we add an sstable to the level, we remove it from the sorted list. Once we reach the end of the sorted list, we have a full level, and can start over with the level below.
+
+If we end up with more levels than expected, we put all levels exceeding the expected in L0, for example, original L0 files will most likely be put in a level of its own since they most often overlap many other sstables.
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+
+sstableofflinerelevel [--dry-run] <keyspace> <table>
+
+Doing a dry run
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Use the --dry-run option to see the current level distribution and predicted level after the change.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableofflinerelevel --dry-run keyspace eventlog
+    For sstables in /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753:
+    Current leveling:
+    L0=2
+    Potential leveling:
+    L0=1
+    L1=1
+
+Running a relevel
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableofflinerelevel keyspace eventlog
+    For sstables in /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753:
+    Current leveling:
+    L0=2
+    New leveling:
+    L0=1
+    L1=1
+
+Keyspace or table not found
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If an invalid keyspace and/or table is provided, an exception will be thrown.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableofflinerelevel --dry-run keyspace evenlog
+
+    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown keyspace/columnFamily keyspace1.evenlog
+        at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableOfflineRelevel.main(SSTableOfflineRelevel.java:96)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstablerepairedset
+------------------
+
+Repairs can take a very long time in some environments, for large sizes of data. Use this tool to set the repairedAt status on a given set of sstables, so that repairs can be run on only un-repaired sstables if desired.
+
+Note that running a repair (e.g., via nodetool repair) doesn't set the status of this metadata. Only setting the status of this metadata via this tool does.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5351
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+sstablerepairedset --really-set <options> [-f <sstable-list> | <sstables>]
+
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+--really-set                                          required if you want to really set the status
+--is-repaired                                         set the repairedAt status to the last modified time
+--is-unrepaired                                       set the repairedAt status to 0
+-f                                                    use a file containing a list of sstables as the input
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+
+Set a lot of sstables to unrepaired status
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+There are many ways to do this programmatically. This way would likely include variables for the keyspace and table.
+
+Example::
+
+    find /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-d936bd20a17c11e8bc92a55ed562cd82/* -name "*Data.db" -print0 | xargs -0 -I % sstablerepairedset --really-set --is-unrepaired %
+
+Set one to many sstables to repaired status
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Set the repairedAt status after a repair to mark the sstables as repaired. Again, using variables for the keyspace and table names is a good choice.
+
+Example::
+
+    nodetool repair keyspace1 standard1
+    find /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-d936bd20a17c11e8bc92a55ed562cd82/* -name "*Data.db" -print0 | xargs -0 -I % sstablerepairedset --really-set --is-repaired %
+
+Print metadata showing repaired status
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+sstablemetadata can be used to view the status set or unset using this command.
+
+Example:
+
+    sstablerepairedset --really-set --is-repaired /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-d936bd20a17c11e8bc92a55ed562cd82/mc-1-big-Data.db
+    sstablemetadata /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-d936bd20a17c11e8bc92a55ed562cd82/mc-1-big-Data.db | grep "Repaired at"
+    Repaired at: 1534443974000
+
+    sstablerepairedset --really-set --is-unrepaired /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-d936bd20a17c11e8bc92a55ed562cd82/mc-1-big-Data.db
+    sstablemetadata /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-d936bd20a17c11e8bc92a55ed562cd82/mc-1-big-Data.db | grep "Repaired at"
+    Repaired at: 0
+
+Using command in a script
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If you know you ran repair 2 weeks ago, you can do something like the following::
+
+    sstablerepairset --is-repaired -f <(find /var/lib/cassandra/data/.../ -iname "*Data.db*" -mtime +14)
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstablescrub
+------------
+
+Fix a broken sstable. The scrub process rewrites the sstable, skipping any corrupted rows. Because these rows are lost, follow this process with a repair.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4321
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+sstablescrub <options> <keyspace> <table>
+
+===================================     ================================================================================
+--debug                                 display stack traces
+-h,--help                               display this help message
+-m,--manifest-check                     only check and repair the leveled manifest, without actually scrubbing the sstables
+-n,--no-validate                        do not validate columns using column validator
+-r,--reinsert-overflowed-ttl            Rewrites rows with overflowed expiration date affected by CASSANDRA-14092 
+                                        with the maximum supported expiration date of 2038-01-19T03:14:06+00:00. The rows are rewritten with the original timestamp incremented by one millisecond to override/supersede any potential tombstone that may have been generated during compaction of the affected rows.
+-s,--skip-corrupted                     skip corrupt rows in counter tables
+-v,--verbose                            verbose output
+===================================     ================================================================================
+
+Basic Scrub
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The scrub without options will do a snapshot first, then write all non-corrupted files to a new sstable.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablescrub keyspace1 standard1
+    Pre-scrub sstables snapshotted into snapshot pre-scrub-1534424070883
+    Scrubbing BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-5-big-Data.db') (17.142MiB)
+    Scrub of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-5-big-Data.db') complete: 73367 rows in new sstable and 0 empty (tombstoned) rows dropped
+    Checking leveled manifest
+
+Scrub without Validation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9406
+
+Use the --no-validate option to retain data that may be misrepresented (e.g., an integer stored in a long field) but not corrupt. This data usually doesn not present any errors to the client.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablescrub --no-validate keyspace1 standard1
+    Pre-scrub sstables snapshotted into snapshot pre-scrub-1536243158517
+    Scrubbing BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-bc9cf530b1da11e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-2-big-Data.db') (4.482MiB)
+    Scrub of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-bc9cf530b1da11e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-2-big-Data.db') complete; looks like all 0 rows were tombstoned
+
+Skip Corrupted Counter Tables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5930
+
+If counter tables are corrupted in a way that prevents sstablescrub from completing, you can use the --skip-corrupted option to skip scrubbing those counter tables. This workaround is not necessary in versions 2.0+.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablescrub --skip-corrupted keyspace1 counter1
+
+Dealing with Overflow Dates
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14092
+
+Using the option --reinsert-overflowed-ttl allows a rewriting of rows that had a max TTL going over the maximum (causing an overflow).
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablescrub --reinsert-overflowed-ttl keyspace1 counter1
+
+Manifest Check
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+As of Cassandra version 2.0, this option is no longer relevant, since level data was moved from a separate manifest into the sstable metadata.
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstablesplit
+------------
+
+Big sstable files can take up a lot of disk space. The sstablesplit tool can be used to split those large files into smaller files. It can be thought of as a type of anticompaction. 
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4766
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+sstablesplit <options> <filename>
+
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+--debug                                               display stack traces
+-h, --help                                            display this help message
+--no-snapshot                                         don't snapshot the sstables before splitting
+-s, --size <size>                                     maximum size in MB for the output sstables (default: 50)
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+
+This command should be run with Cassandra stopped. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Split a File
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Split a large sstable into smaller sstables. By default, unless the option --no-snapshot is added, a snapshot will be done of the original sstable and placed in the snapshots folder.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablesplit /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-8-big-Data.db
+    
+    Pre-split sstables snapshotted into snapshot pre-split-1533144514795
+
+Split Multiple Files
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Wildcards can be used in the filename portion of the command to split multiple files.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablesplit --size 1 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-1*
+
+Attempt to Split a Small File
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+If the file is already smaller than the split size provided, the sstable will not be split.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablesplit /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-8-big-Data.db
+    Skipping /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-8-big-Data.db: it's size (1.442 MB) is less than the split size (50 MB)
+    No sstables needed splitting.
+
+Split a File into Specified Size
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The default size used for splitting is 50MB. Specify another size with the --size option. The size is in megabytes (MB). Specify only the number, not the units. For example --size 50 is correct, but --size 50MB is not.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablesplit --size 1 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-9-big-Data.db
+    Pre-split sstables snapshotted into snapshot pre-split-1533144996008
+
+
+Split Without Snapshot
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+By default, sstablesplit will create a snapshot before splitting. If a snapshot is not needed, use the --no-snapshot option to skip it.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstablesplit --size 1 --no-snapshot /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-11-big-Data.db
+
+Note: There is no output, but you can see the results in your file system.
+
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstableupgrade
+--------------
+
+Upgrade the sstables in the given table (or snapshot) to the current version of Cassandra. This process is typically done after a Cassandra version upgrade. This operation will rewrite the sstables in the specified table to match the currently installed version of Cassandra. The sstableupgrade command can also be used to downgrade sstables to a previous version.
+
+The snapshot option will only upgrade the specified snapshot. Upgrading snapshots is required before attempting to restore a snapshot taken in a major version older than the major version Cassandra is currently running. This will replace the files in the given snapshot as well as break any hard links to live sstables.
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+sstableupgrade <options> <keyspace> <table> [snapshot_name]
+
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+--debug                                               display stack traces
+-h,--help                                             display this help message
+-k,--keep-source                                      do not delete the source sstables
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+
+Rewrite tables to the current Cassandra version
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Start with a set of sstables in one version of Cassandra::
+
+    ls -al /tmp/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-9695b790a63211e8a6fb091830ac5256/
+    ...
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel      348 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-CRC.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel  5620000 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       10 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Digest.sha1
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel    25016 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Filter.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel   480000 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Index.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel     9895 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Statistics.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel     3562 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Summary.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       79 Aug 22 13:45 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-TOC.txt
+
+After upgrading the Cassandra version, upgrade the sstables::
+
+    sstableupgrade keyspace1 standard1
+    Found 1 sstables that need upgrading.
+    Upgrading BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-9695b790a63211e8a6fb091830ac5256/keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db')
+    Upgrade of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-9695b790a63211e8a6fb091830ac5256/keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db') complete.
+
+    ls -al /tmp/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-9695b790a63211e8a6fb091830ac5256/
+    ...
+    drwxr-xr-x   2 user  wheel       64 Aug 22 13:48 backups
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel      292 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-CRC.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel  4599475 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-Data.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       10 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-Digest.crc32
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel    25256 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-Filter.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel   330807 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-Index.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel    10312 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-Statistics.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel     3506 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-Summary.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       80 Aug 22 13:48 mc-2-big-TOC.txt
+
+Rewrite tables to the current Cassandra version, and keep tables in old version
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Again, starting with a set of sstables in one version::
+
+    ls -al /tmp/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-db532690a63411e8b4ae091830ac5256/
+    ...
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel      348 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-CRC.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel  5620000 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       10 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Digest.sha1
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel    25016 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Filter.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel   480000 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Index.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel     9895 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Statistics.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel     3562 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Summary.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       79 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-TOC.txt
+
+After upgrading the Cassandra version, upgrade the sstables, retaining the original sstables::
+
+    sstableupgrade keyspace1 standard1 -k
+    Found 1 sstables that need upgrading.
+    Upgrading BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-db532690a63411e8b4ae091830ac5256/keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db')
+    Upgrade of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-db532690a63411e8b4ae091830ac5256/keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db') complete.
+
+    ls -al /tmp/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-db532690a63411e8b4ae091830ac5256/
+    ...
+    drwxr-xr-x   2 user  wheel       64 Aug 22 14:00 backups
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel      348 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-CRC.db
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel  5620000 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel       10 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Digest.sha1
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel    25016 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Filter.db
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel   480000 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Index.db
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel     9895 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Statistics.db
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel     3562 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Summary.db
+    -rw-r--r--@  1 user  wheel       79 Aug 22 13:58 keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-TOC.txt
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel      292 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-CRC.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel  4596370 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-Data.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       10 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-Digest.crc32
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel    25256 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-Filter.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel   330801 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-Index.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel    10312 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-Statistics.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel     3506 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-Summary.db
+    -rw-r--r--   1 user  wheel       80 Aug 22 14:01 mc-2-big-TOC.txt
+
+
+Rewrite a snapshot to the current Cassandra version
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Find the snapshot name::
+
+    nodetool listsnapshots
+
+    Snapshot Details:
+    Snapshot name       Keyspace name                Column family name           True size          Size on disk
+    ...
+    1534962986979       keyspace1                    standard1                    5.85 MB            5.85 MB
+
+Then rewrite the snapshot::
+
+    sstableupgrade keyspace1 standard1 1534962986979
+    Found 1 sstables that need upgrading.
+    Upgrading BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-5850e9f0a63711e8a5c5091830ac5256/snapshots/1534962986979/keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db')
+    Upgrade of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-5850e9f0a63711e8a5c5091830ac5256/snapshots/1534962986979/keyspace1-standard1-ka-1-Data.db') complete.
+
+
+
+
+

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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+.. or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+.. distributed with this work for additional information
+.. regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+.. "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+.. with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+..
+..     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+.. WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+.. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+.. limitations under the License.
+
+sstableutil
+-----------
+
+List sstable files for the provided table.
+
+ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7066
+
+Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
+
+Usage
+^^^^^
+sstableutil <options> <keyspace> <table>
+
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+-c, --cleanup                                         clean up any outstanding transactions
+-d, --debug                                           display stack traces
+-h, --help                                            display this help message
+-o, --oplog                                           include operation logs
+-t, --type <arg>                                      all (list all files, final or temporary), tmp (list temporary files only), 
+                                                      final (list final files only),
+-v, --verbose                                         verbose output
+===================================                   ================================================================================
+
+List all sstables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The basic command lists the sstables associated with a given keyspace/table.
+
+Example::
+
+    sstableutil keyspace eventlog
+    Listing files...
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-CRC.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Digest.crc32
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Filter.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Index.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Statistics.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Summary.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-TOC.txt
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-CRC.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Digest.crc32
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Filter.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Index.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Statistics.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Summary.db
+    /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-TOC.txt
+
+List only temporary sstables 
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Using the -t option followed by `tmp` will list all temporary sstables, in the format above. Temporary sstables were used in pre-3.0 versions of Cassandra.
+
+List only final sstables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Using the -t option followed by `final` will list all final sstables, in the format above. In recent versions of Cassandra, this is the same output as not using the -t option.
+
+Include transaction logs
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Using the -o option will include transaction logs in the listing, in the format above.
+
+Clean up sstables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Using the -c option removes any transactions left over from incomplete writes or compactions.
+
+From the 3.0 upgrade notes:
+
+New transaction log files have been introduced to replace the compactions_in_progress system table, temporary file markers (tmp and tmplink) and sstable ancestors. Therefore, compaction metadata no longer contains ancestors. Transaction log files list sstable descriptors involved in compactions and other operations such as flushing and streaming. Use the sstableutil tool to list any sstable files currently involved in operations not yet completed, which previously would have been marked as temporary. A transaction log file contains one sstable per line, with the prefix "add:" or "remove:". They also contain a special line "commit", only inserted at the end when the transaction is committed. On startup we use these files to cleanup any partial transactions that were in progress when the process exited. If the commit line is found, we keep new sstables (those with the "add" prefix) and delete the old sstables (those with the "remove" prefix), vice-versa if the commit line is missing. 
 Should you lose or delete these log files, both old and new sstable files will be kept as live files, which will result in duplicated sstables. These files are protected by incremental checksums so you should not manually edit them. When restoring a full backup or moving sstable files, you should clean-up any left over transactions and their temporary files first. 
+
+
+


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