For me, to transition production data into a development environment for
real world testing. Also, backups are never a bad idea, though I agree most
all risk is mitigated due to cassandra's design.
will
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Sasha Dolgy <sdolgy@gmail.com> wrote:
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> well, this is what i'm getting at. why would you want to back it up if the
> cluster is working properly? backup is silly.... ; )
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:54 PM, William Oberman <oberman@civicscience.com>wrote:
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>> I'm considering similar issues right now. The problem with ephemeral
>> storage is I don't know an easy way to back it up, while on an EBS it's a
>> simple snapshot API call.
>>
>> Otherwise, I believe the performance of the ephemeral (certainly in the
>> case of large or greater, where you can RAID0 multiple disks) is way better
>> than EBS.
>>
>> will
>>
>>
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