The cassandra cluster has 4 nodes and replication factor is 3.The read and write consitency is set to local_Quoram.
Any pointers on backup and restore procedure of cassandra cluster ,As i am very new to it.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
You can use nodetool snapshot. It will create a snapshot of the data, then copy snapshot to a safe storage and whenever you want to restore copy back the data to node and restore it.
More details here
http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/operations/ops_backup_restore_c.html
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I have 3 node cassandra cluster and I have a script which backup all of the keyspaces, but when it comes to restore on fresh cluster, data keyspaces restored correctly, but system_* keyspaces not.
So it is necessary to backup system keyspaces in cassandra?
You will need to backup the keyspace system_schema at the same time, as it will contain the definition of keyspaces, tables, and columns. The other system* keyspaces should be left untouched.
Fresh cluster makes own setup like token ranges etc based on configurations.you can restore the cluster on new cluster but you need to create schema and configuration same as old cluster. There is many ways to take backup and restore procedure based on requirements as below:-
https://docs.datastax.com/en/archived/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/operations/opsBackupRestore.html
I am working on a cassandra backup and recovery strategy for our cassandra system and am trying to understand how the backup and sstable recovery works in cassandra. Here are of my observations and related questions (my need is to setup a standby/backup cluster which would become active if the primary cluster goes down.. so I want to keep them in sync in terms of data, so I want to take periodic backups at my active cluster and recover to the standby cluster)
Took a snapshot backup. Dropped a table in cassandra. Stopped cassandra, recovered from the snapshot backup (copied the sstables to the data/ folder), started cassandra. Ran cqlsh on the node, and I still do not see the table created. Should this work? Am I missing any step ?
In the above scenario, I then tried to re-setup the schema (I take backup of the schema in the snapshot) using the cql commant source . This created the table for me. However it creates a "new version" of table for me. When I recover the snapshot has the older version (different uuid labelled folders for table). After recovery, I still see no data in the table. Possibly because I created a new table?
I was finally able to recover data after running nodetool repair and using sstableloader to restore table data from another node in the cluster.
My question is
a. what is the right way to setup a new (blank- no schema) cluster from a snapshot? How do you setup the schema and recover data?
b. how do you restore a cluster from a backup with table alterations. How do you bring a cluster running an older version of schema to a newer version of schema when recovering from a backup (snapshot or incremental)?
(NOTE: cassandra newbie here)
So if you want to restore a snapshot, you need to copy the snapshot files back to the sstable directory and then run: nodetool refresh. You can read:
https://docs.datastax.com/en/dse/5.1/dse-admin/datastax_enterprise/operations/opsBackupSnapshotRestore.html
for more information. Also, there are 3rd party tools that can back up your data and then restore it as it was at the time of the backup. We use a tool: Cohesity (formally Talena/Imanis). It has a lot of capabilities (refreshing A to B, restore/rename, etc.). There are other popular ones as well. All of them have costs associated with them.
Hopefully that helps?
-Jim
We have a regular backup of our cluster and we store schema and snapshot back up on aws s3 on daily basis.
Somehow we have lost all the data and while recovering the data from backup we are able to recover schema but while copying snapshots files to /var/lib/cassandra/data directory its not showing up the data in the tables.
After copying the data we have done nodetool refresh -- keyspace table but still nothing is working out.
could you please help on this ?
Im new at Apache Cassandra, but my first focus at this topic was the Backup.
If you want to restore from a Snapshot (on new node/cluster) you have to shut down Cassandra on any node and clear any existing data from these folders:
/var/lib/cassandra/data -> If you want to safe your System Keyspaces so delete only your Userkeyspaces folders
/var/lib/cassandra/commitlog
/var/lib/cassandra/hints
/var/lib/cassandra/saved_cashes
After this, you have to start Cassandra again (the whole Cluster). Create the Keyspace like the one you want to restore and the table you want to restore. In Your Snapshot folder you will find a schema.cql script for the creation of the table.
After Creating the Keyspaces an tables again, wait a moment (time depends on the ammount of nodes in your cluster and keypsaces you want to restore.)
Shut down the Cassandra Cluster again.
Copy the Files from the Snapshot folder to the new folders of the tables you want to restore. Do this on ALL NODES!
After copying the files, start the nodes one by one.
If all nodes are running, run the nodetool repair command.
If you try to check the data via CQLSH, so think of the CONSISTENCY LEVEL! (ALL/QUORUM)
Thats the way, wich work at my Cassandra cluster verry well.
The general steps to follow for restoring a snapshot is:
1.Shutdown Cassandra if still running.
2.Clear any existing data in commitlogs, data and saved caches directories
3.Copy snapshots to relevant data directories
4.Copy incremental backups to data directory (if incremental backups are enabled)
If required, set restore_point_in_time parameter in commitlog_archiving.properties to
restore point.
5.Start Cassandra.
6.Run repair
So try running repair after copying data.
I have snapshot backup from cassandra cluster 1, and need to restore the same on cassandra cluster 2. Is it possible to do so, without having schema?
Cassandra table-schema details will be stored as meta data in system keyspaces.
Cassandra snapshot just creates a copy of sstables for the requested keyspace/column_familes. So to restore the snapshot, you need to explicitly create the schema in destination cluster.
I am trying to backup the whole cluster consistently. What are different ways to backup and restore Cassandra cluster?
If you are using the DataStax Enterprise version, then the easiest way is to perform the backups and restore using OpsCenter.
If you are using the DataStax Community or open-sourced version of Cassandra, then use nodetool snapshot to create backups of tables and/or keyspaces.
Please bear in mind that SSTables are immutable, i.e. they never change once they are written to disk. So unlike RDBMS data files, SSTables are not updated.
To perform a snapshot cluster-wide, use SSH tools such as pssh to perform parallel snapshots on all nodes.
More information on the snapshot utility is available here.
There are several ways to restore from snapshots. One way is to re-load the data using the sstableloader tool where the data is read back into the cluster. Another way is by copying the SSTable directory from snapshot and running nodetool refresh. Finally, you can replace the existing data with the snapshot and restarting the node.
More information on backups and restores are available here.