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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:11:53 +0000
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Subject: Re: BulkLoader
From: Sylvain Lebresne <sylvain@datastax.com>
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Also note that if you have a cassandra node running on the local node
from which you want to bulk load sstables, there is a JMX
(StorageService->bulkLoad) call to do just that. May be simpler than
using sstableloader if that is what you want to do.

--
Sylvain

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Stephen Pope <Stephen.Pope@quest.com> wrot=
e:
> =A0Ahhh..ok. Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbellis@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:35 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: BulkLoader
>
> Because it's hooking directly into gossip, so the local instance it's
> ignoring is the bulkloader process, not Cassandra.
>
> You'd need to run the bulkloader from a different IP, than Cassandra.
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Stephen Pope <Stephen.Pope@quest.com> wr=
ote:
>> =A0Fair enough. My original question stands then. :)
>>
>> =A0Why aren't you allowed to talk to a local installation using BulkLoad=
er?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbellis@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:06 AM
>> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: BulkLoader
>>
>> Sure, that will work fine with a single machine. =A0The advantage of
>> bulkloader is it handles splitting the sstable up and sending each
>> piece to the right place(s) when you have more than one.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Stephen Pope <Stephen.Pope@quest.com> w=
rote:
>>> =A0I think I've solved my own problem here. After generating the sstabl=
e using json2sstable it looks like I can simply copy the created sstable in=
to my data directory.
>>>
>>> =A0Can anyone think of any potential problems with doing it this way?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Stephen Pope [mailto:Stephen.Pope@quest.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:32 AM
>>> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
>>> Subject: BulkLoader
>>>
>>> =A0I'm trying to figure out how to use the BulkLoader, and it looks lik=
e there's no way to run it against a local machine, because of this:
>>>
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Set<InetAddress> hosts =3D Gossiper.inst=
ance.getLiveMembers();
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0hosts.remove(FBUtilities.getLocalAddress=
());
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0if (hosts.isEmpty())
>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0throw new IllegalStateException(=
"Cannot load any sstable, no live member found in the cluster");
>>>
>>> =A0Is this intended behavior? May I ask why? We'd like to be able to ru=
n it against the local machine.
>>>
>>> =A0Cheers,
>>> =A0Steve
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
>> http://www.datastax.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Ellis
> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
> http://www.datastax.com
>