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sunilrpawar7_183464 asked ·

Can range repair replace repair of a table?

This is the follow-up question regarding the below issue:-

https://community.datastax.com/comments/5060/view.html

1. As we are not able to run tablewise repair on one particular table we are running a token-wise repair with -pr option on all available nodes. How much effective it is? Can we rely on it to get assured that it will work as effectively as a normal repair?

2. While running token-wise repair we are encountering an ERROR which states that request range(xxxxx,xxxxx) intersects a local range ((xxxxx,xxxxx) but is not fully contained in one, these would lead to imprecise repair. keyspace: system_auth

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Erick Ramirez answered ·

It isn't a binary state meaning that those 2 are not mutually exclusive. You can do sub-range repairs (a) on the whole cluster, (b) on a keyspace, or (c) a table. I feel that maybe you misunderstood some of the concepts based on your questions. In any case, let me respond directly to your questions.

  1. Primary range repairs (using the -pr flag) can be run (a) on the whole cluster, (b) on a keyspace, or (c) a table. We recommend using primary range repairs because it's very efficient and don't waste resources by repairing overlapping ranges. Primary range are repairs ARE normal repairs.
  2. This means that there was an issue with the range of tokens you specified in the subrange repair. It means that you made an error calculating the start and end tokens and that the node you're running it on doesn't own all the tokens in the range you specified.

For more information on the primary range repair and why it's the most efficient, see this blog post on Repair in Cassandra which explains it in detail. Cheers!

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sunilrpawar7_183464 avatar image sunilrpawar7_183464 ·

Hi @Erick Ramirez, I will update my question. I think am not able to convey my query properly.

Requesting you to update your answer accordingly.

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Erick Ramirez avatar image Erick Ramirez ♦♦ sunilrpawar7_183464 ·

I've logged your update as a new post since it's a completely different question to what you originally asked in this post. Cheers!

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