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From: Benjamin Black <b@b3k.us>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:51:38 -0700
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Oleg Anastasjev <oleganas@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> Benjamin Black <b <at> b3k.us> writes:
>
>> > 3. I waited for the data to replicate, which didn't happen.
>>
>> Correct, you need to run nodetool repair because the nodes were not
>> present when the writes came in. =A0You can also use a higher
>> consistency level to force read repair before returning data, which
>> will incrementally repair things.
>>
>
> Alternatively you could configure new nodes to bootstrap in storage-conf.=
xml. If
> bootstrap is enalbed you'll get data replicated on them as soon as they j=
oin
> cluster.
>

My recommendation is to leave Autobootstrap disabled, copy the
datafiles over, and then run cleanup.  It is faster and more reliable
than streaming, in my experience.


b