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Jeremiah Jordan commented on CASSANDRA-9195:
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bq. I see how the truncation record is necessary when replaying commitlogs for
a normal node restart, but I'm trying to imagine the case where you would ever
want that when replaying archived commit logs.
The goal of replaying archived commitlogs is to restore your database to a
certain point in time. If that point in time is before the truncate happened,
then yes, you would want to ignore the truncate. If that point in time is
*after* the truncate happened, then you want to only replay data from truncate
time to restore time.
If your goal is to restore the data you truncated, then you shouldn't be using
PITR restore for that, you should be putting the sstables from the auto
snapshot back in place.
> commitlog replay only actually replays mutation every other time
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-9195
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9195
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Jon Moses
> Assignee: Branimir Lambov
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.1.5
>
> Attachments: 9195-v2.1.patch, loader.py
>
>
> Version: Cassandra 2.1.4.374 | DSE 4.7.0
> The main issue here is that the restore-cycle only replays the mutations
> every other try. On the first try, it will restore the snapshot as expected
> and the cassandra system load will show that it's reading the mutations, but
> they do not actually get replayed, and at the end you're left with only the
> snapshot data (2k records).
> If you re-run the restore-cycle again, the commitlogs are replayed as
> expected,
> and the data expected is present in the table (4k records, with a spot check
> of
> record 4500, as it's in the commitlog but not the snapshot).
> Then if you run the cycle again, it will fail. Then again, and it will work.
> The work/
> not work pattern continues. Even re-running the commitlog replay a 2nd time,
> without
> reloading the snapshot doesn't work
> The load process is:
> * Modify commitlog segment to 1mb
> * Archive to directory
> * create keyspace/table
> * insert base data
> * initial snapshot
> * write more data
> * capture timestamp
> * write more data
> * final snapshot
> * copy commitlogs to 2nd location
> * modify cassandra-env to replay only specified keyspace
> * modify commitlog properties to restore from 2nd location, with noted
> timestamp
> The restore cycle is:
> * truncate table
> * sstableload snapshot
> * flush
> * output data status
> * restart to replay commitlogs
> * output data status
> ====
> See attached .py for a mostly automated reproduction scenario. It expects
> DSE (and I found it with DSE 4.7.0-1), rather than "actual" Cassandra, but
> it's not using any DSE specific features. The script looks for the configs
> in the DSE locations, but they're set at the top, and there's only 2 places
> where dse is restarted.
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