help on backup muiltinode cluster

hey guys, I'm trying to take backups of a multi-node cassandra and save them on S3. My idea is simply doing ssh to each server and use nodetool to create the snapshots then push then to S3. So is this approach recommended? my concerns are about inconsistencies that this approach can lead, sin

possible problem with multi-node cluster

Hi guys, i have some issues with an application on a cassandra multinode cluster. I need help to understand what is going on. here is the stack trace of my application. 2014-01-16 12:33:14,176 - root - ERROR - 2014-01-16 12:33:14,176 -