On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:57:18 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
JE> 2009/11/20 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: >> As a related issue, it would be nice to have a utility that either dumps >> a whole key or a whole keyspace in some format (YAML, XML, whatever) >> without access to the machine where Cassandra lives. I didn't see such >> a beast in the repos or any of the tools out there. JE> That's because it doesn't make sense. :) JE> Dumping that kind of data volume only really makes sense locally. And JE> if you can't run it locally, scp the data files to a machine you can JE> run it on, and do it there. JE> (The local export tool, for those who don't know, is bin/sstable2json. JE> That should have made CHANGES.txt, but didn't. Oops.) Cool, thanks for explaining. I still think exporting a single key remotely is very useful, and at least that should be possible with the current architecture, right? Ted
