Does Tablesnap deleted obsoletes SSTables backups ?

JeremyGrosser / tablesnap

Uses inotify to monitor Cassandra SSTables and upload them to S3

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Does Tablesnap deleted obsoletes SSTables backups ? #26

Closed patricioe closed 11 years ago

patricioe commented 11 years ago

Sorry I file an issue for this but I'm not sure the folks in cassandra-ops know about.

After compaction SSTables become obsolete. What happens to those uploaded SSTables (in S3) ? Do I need to manually delete them?

Thanks

JeremyGrosser commented 11 years ago

Tablesnap does not delete old SSTables so that you can do point-in-time recovery from an old SSTable if something bad happened to your data. If you'd like things to get deleted, you'll need to do that yourself.

patricioe commented 11 years ago

Thanks.