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A tool to backup cassandra nodes using snapshots and incremental backups on S3
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Cleaning up incremental backups on local Cassandra Node #24

Closed gbone24 closed 10 years ago

gbone24 commented 10 years ago

After an incremental backup does the backups directory remain intact? To manage disk space on my cassandra nodes I would like to cleanup the backups directory after files get pushed to S3.

tbarbugli commented 10 years ago

Hi, yes, snapshots are cleared once they are uploaded to S3

tbarbugli commented 10 years ago

Hi Greg, sorry for the late reply; cassandra only creates hard links to data files when doing backups, no extra space is used (well unless you care about the few KB used by links) during backups. The extra links are cleaned up by the snapshotter at the end of the backup process.

2014-07-03 19:57 GMT+02:00 Greg Bone notifications@github.com:

After an incremental backup does the backups directory remain intact? To manage disk space on my cassandra nodes I would like to cleanup the backups directory after files get pushed to S3.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/tbarbugli/cassandra_snapshotter/issues/24.