Hi Will,
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Backing_up_data
<http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Backing_up_data>If the snapshot
is written to the ephemeral storage ... there isn't a cost. (i need to
confirm that)
You can then move this to an S3 bucket with RDS if you want or full
99.999999999% redundancy and have it available to developers
This is what I had in my head....
-sd
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:39 PM, William Oberman <oberman@civicscience.com>wrote:
> I thought nodetool snapshot writes the snapshot locally, requiring 2x of
> expensive storage allocation 24x7 (vs. cheap storage allocation of a ebs
> snapshot). By that I mean EBS allocation is GB allocated per month costs at
> one rate, and EBS snapshots are delta compressed copies to S3.
>
> Can you point the snapshot to an external filesystem?
>
> will
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