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Subject: Routine nodetool repair
From: Blake Starkenburg <bstarkenburg@gmail.com>
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I have been playing around with Cassandra for a few months now. Starting to
explore more of the routine maintenance and backup strategies and I have a
general question about nodetool repair. After reading the following page:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/cluster_management it has
occurred to me that for these past few months I have NOT DONE any cleanup
or repair commands on a test 2-node cluster (and their has been quite a few
deletes, writes, etc.).

For some reason I was under the assumption that Cassandra handled the
tombstone records from deletes automatically? Should I still run nodetool
repair and if so, what about old deletes which occurred months ago?

Thank You!

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I have been playing around with Cassandra for a few months now. Starting
 to explore more of the routine maintenance and backup strategies and I 
have a general question about nodetool repair. After reading the 
following page: <a href="http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/cluster_management" target="_blank">http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/cluster_management</a>
 it has occurred to me that for these past few months I have NOT DONE 
any cleanup or repair commands on a test 2-node cluster (and their has 
been quite a few deletes, writes, etc.).<br>
<br>For some reason I was under the assumption that Cassandra handled 
the tombstone records from deletes automatically? Should I still run 
nodetool repair and if so, what about old deletes which occurred months 
ago?<br><br>
Thank You!

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