Also see the recent discussion "Best way to backup" and this handy tool from simplegeo.com
https://github.com/simplegeo/tablesnap ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4 May 2011, at 19:12, Peter Schuller wrote: >> would help here too in a very simple way... will try to file a JIRA >> for that. > > No I won't, it's a broken suggestion (because you'd lose data; write 1 > before cut-off will be overwritten by write 2 after cut-off, but > starting up a node with cut-off will then see neither). > > Note to self again: Think before typing. :) > > -- > / Peter Schuller