Hi Abhishek, In my opinion, you already have data and bootstrapping is not needed here. You can set auto_bootstrap to false in Cassandra.yaml and once the cassandra is rebooted, you should run repair to fix the inconsistent data.
ThanksAnuj On Monday, 16 November 2015 10:34 PM, Josh Smith <josh.sm...@careerbuilder.com> wrote: #yiv1301064707 -- filtered {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}#yiv1301064707 filtered {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}#yiv1301064707 filtered {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}#yiv1301064707 filtered {font-family:Consolas;panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}#yiv1301064707 p.yiv1301064707MsoNormal, #yiv1301064707 li.yiv1301064707MsoNormal, #yiv1301064707 div.yiv1301064707MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv1301064707 a:link, #yiv1301064707 span.yiv1301064707MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv1301064707 a:visited, #yiv1301064707 span.yiv1301064707MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv1301064707 p {margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv1301064707 pre {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:10.0pt;}#yiv1301064707 span.yiv1301064707EmailStyle18 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv1301064707 span.yiv1301064707HTMLPreformattedChar {}#yiv1301064707 .yiv1301064707MsoChpDefault {}#yiv1301064707 filtered {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv1301064707 div.yiv1301064707WordSection1 {}#yiv1301064707 filtered {}#yiv1301064707 ol {margin-bottom:0in;}#yiv1301064707 ul {margin-bottom:0in;}#yiv1301064707 Sis you set the JVM_OPTS to replace address? That is usually the error I get when I forget to set the replace_address on Cassandra-env. JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Dcassandra.replace_address=address_of_dead_node From: Anishek Agarwal [mailto:anis...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 9:25 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: handling down node cassandra 2.0.15 nope its not On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:48 PM, sai krishnam raju potturi <pskraj...@gmail.com> wrote: Is that a seed node? On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 05:21 Anishek Agarwal <anis...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, We are having a 3 node cluster and one of the node went down due to a hardware memory failure looks like. We followed the steps below after the node was down for more than the default value of max_hint_window_in_ms I tried to restart cassandra by following the steps @ - http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/operations/ops_replace_node_t.html - http://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2014-03-12/replace-a-dead-node-in-cassandra.html except the "clear data" part as it was not specified in second blog above. i was trying to restart the same node that went down, however I did not get the messages in log files as stated in 2 against "StorageService" instead it just tried to replay and then stopped with the error message as below: ERROR [main] 2015-11-16 15:27:22,944 CassandraDaemon.java (line 584) Exception encountered during startup java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot replace address with a node that is already bootstrapped Can someone please help me if there is something i am doing wrong here. Thanks for the help in advance. Regards, Anishek