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Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 18:06:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: Bulkload into a different CF
From: Benoit Perroud <benoit@noisette.ch>
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!! Without any guarantee. I know it works but I never used this in production !!

You can copy the sstables (renaming them accordingly) and call nodetool refresh.

Don't forget to create your column family CF2 before.


2012/5/1 Oleg Proudnikov <olegp@cloudorange.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to create an exact replica of a CF by these steps?
>
> 1. Take a snapshot
> 2. Isolate sstables for CF1
> 3. Rename sstables into CF2
> 4. Bulk load renamed sstables into newly created CF2 within the same Keyspace
>
> Or would you suggest using sstable2json instead?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Oleg
>


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