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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:40:44 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Cassandra] Replacing a cassandra node
From: Robert Coli <rcoli@eventbrite.com>
To: user@cassandra.apache.org, Emalayan Vairavanathan <svemalayan@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Emalayan Vairavanathan
<svemalayan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In the case where replace a cassandra node (call it node A) with another one
> that has the exact same IP (ie. during a node failure), what exactly should
> we do?  Currently I understand that we should at least run "nodetool
> repair".

If you lost the data from the node, then what you want is "replace_token."

If you didn't lose the data from the node (and can tolerate stale
reads until the repair completes) you want to start the node with
auto_bootstrap set to false and then repair.

=Rob