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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Repair

As Apache Cassandra is an eventually consistent database, it knowingly sacrifices consistency. Sometimes, network conditions, hardware/instance failures, or periods of extremely high load can cause issues with data replication. To remedy these possible scenarios, you should run weekly repairs on your cluster.

Simply running this statement without any parameters will invoke a full repair on all keyspaces and tables in the cluster:

nodetool repair -full

As the system keyspaces shouldn't need to be repaired regularly, this command can be focused on repairing all tables in a particular keyspace:

nodetool repair -full packt_chapter3

Likewise, you can also specify a particular table to be repaired as follows:

nodetool repair -full packt_chapter3 ...
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