Hi Jens, If you decommission a data center, The data residing in the Data Center which you are planning for decommission has to be balanced to the nodes of the other data center satisfying RF. Hence Repair is required.
Best Regards, Kiran.M.K. On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Jens Rantil <jens.ran...@tink.se> wrote: > Hi, > > I asked this on IRC earlier today, but didn't get any response; > > Datastax's documentation on "Decommissioning a data center > <http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/operations/ops_decomission_dc_t.html>" > tells me to run a full repair and then decommission each node. Isn't > decommissioning going to hand over all data anyway? Then why is the repair > necessary? > > Cheers, > Jens > > -- > Jens Rantil > Backend engineer > Tink AB > > Email: jens.ran...@tink.se > Phone: +46 708 84 18 32 > Web: www.tink.se > > Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/#!/tink.se> Linkedin > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/2735919?trk=vsrp_companies_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A1057023381369207406670%2CVSRPtargetId%3A2735919%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary> > Twitter <https://twitter.com/tink> > -- Best Regards, Kiran.M.K.
