Nevermind, I misunderstood the first link. In this case, the replacement would just be leaving the listen_address as is (to InetAddress.getLocalHost()) and just start the new instance up as you pointed out in your original answer Hannu.
Thanks. On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:35 PM Rutvij Bhatt <rut...@sense.com> wrote: > Hannu/Nitan, > > Thanks for your help so far! From what you said in your first response, I > can get away with just attaching the EBS volume to Cassandra and starting > it with the old node's private IP as my listen_address because it will take > over the token assignment from the old node using the data files? With > regards to "Cassandra automatically realizes that have just effectively > changed IP address.", it says in the first link to change this manually to > the desired address - does this not apply in my case if I'm replacing the > old node? > > As for the plan I outlined earlier, is this more for DR scenarios where I > have lost a node due to hardware failure and I need to recover the data in > a safe manner by requesting a stream from the other replicas? Am I > understanding this right? > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:59 AM Hannu Kröger <hkro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> So the local information about tokens is stored in the system keyspace. >> Also the host id and all that. >> >> Also documented here: >> >> https://support.datastax.com/hc/en-us/articles/204289959-Changing-IP-addresses-in-DSE >> >> If for any reason that causes issues, you can also check this: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8382 >> >> If you copy all cassandra data, you are on the safe side. Good point in >> the links is that if you have IP addresses in topolgy or other files, then >> update those as well. >> >> Hannu >> >> On 13 June 2017 at 11:53:13, Nitan Kainth (ni...@bamlabs.com) wrote: >> >> Hannu, >> >> "Cassandra automatically realizes that have just effectively changed IP >> address” —> are you sure C* will take care of IP change as is? How will it >> know which token range to be assigned to this new IP address? >> >> On Jun 13, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Hannu Kröger <hkro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Cassandra automatically realizes that have just effectively changed IP >> address >> >> >>
