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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 22:36:19 +0200
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Subject: Re: Migrating from a windows cluster to a linux cluster.
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_Schr=F6der?= <skrolle@gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Brandon Williams <driftx@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> That sounds fine, with the caveat that you can't run sstableloader
> from a machine running Cassandra before 1.1, so copying the sstables
> manually (assuming both clusters are the same size and have the same
> tokens) might be better.
>

Why is version 1.1 required for sstableloader? We're running 1.0.x on both
clusters, but we can of course upgrade if that's required.


> > The only issue with this is the timestamps of the data and tombstones in
> > each sstable, will they be preserved by sstableloader? What about
> deletes of
> > non-existing keys? Will they be stored in the Linux cluster so that when
> > sstableloader inserts the key later, it's resolved as being deleted?
>
> None of that should be a problem.
>

Excellent, thanks!


/Henrik

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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Brandon Williams <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:driftx@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">driftx@gmail.com</a>&gt;=
</span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quo=
te" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"=
>
<div class=3D"im"><br>
</div>That sounds fine, with the caveat that you can&#39;t run sstableloade=
r<br>
from a machine running Cassandra before 1.1, so copying the sstables<br>
manually (assuming both clusters are the same size and have the same<br>
tokens) might be better.<br></blockquote><div><br>Why is version 1.1 requir=
ed for sstableloader? We&#39;re running 1.0.x on both clusters, but we can =
of course upgrade if that&#39;s required.<br>=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"=
gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(20=
4,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class=3D"im">
&gt; The only issue with this is the timestamps of the data and tombstones =
in<br>
&gt; each sstable, will they be preserved by sstableloader? What about dele=
tes of<br>
&gt; non-existing keys? Will they be stored in the Linux cluster so that wh=
en<br>
&gt; sstableloader inserts the key later, it&#39;s resolved as being delete=
d?<br>
<br>
</div>None of that should be a problem.<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"></span></blockquote><div><br>Excellent, thanks!<br><=
br><br>/Henrik <br></div></div>

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