sstablescrub
Fix a broken sstable. The scrub process rewrites the sstable, skipping any corrupted rows. Because these rows are lost, follow this process with a repair.
Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.
Usage
sstablescrub <options> <keyspace> <table>
| --debug | display stack traces |
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-h,--help |
display this help message |
-m,--manifest-check |
only check and repair the leveled manifest, without actually scrubbing the sstables |
-n,--no-validate |
do not validate columns using column validator |
-r,--reinsert-overflowed-ttl |
Rewrites rows with overflowed expiration date affected by CASSANDRA-14092 with the maximum supported expiration date of 2038-01-19T03:14:06+00:00. The rows are rewritten with the original timestamp incremented by one millisecond to override/supersede any potential tombstone that may have been generated during compaction of the affected rows. |
-s,--skip-corrupted |
skip corrupt rows in counter tables |
-v,--verbose |
verbose output |
Basic Scrub
The scrub without options will do a snapshot first, then write all non-corrupted files to a new sstable.
Example:
sstablescrub keyspace1 standard1 Pre-scrub sstables snapshotted into snapshot pre-scrub-1534424070883 Scrubbing BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-5-big-Data.db') (17.142MiB) Scrub of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-5-big-Data.db') complete: 73367 rows in new sstable and 0 empty (tombstoned) rows dropped Checking leveled manifest
Scrub without Validation
Use the --no-validate option to retain data that may be misrepresented (e.g., an integer stored in a long field) but not corrupt. This data usually doesn not present any errors to the client.
Example:
sstablescrub --no-validate keyspace1 standard1 Pre-scrub sstables snapshotted into snapshot pre-scrub-1536243158517 Scrubbing BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-bc9cf530b1da11e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-2-big-Data.db') (4.482MiB) Scrub of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-bc9cf530b1da11e886c66d2c86545d91/mc-2-big-Data.db') complete; looks like all 0 rows were tombstoned
Skip Corrupted Counter Tables
If counter tables are corrupted in a way that prevents sstablescrub from completing, you can use the --skip-corrupted option to skip scrubbing those counter tables. This workaround is not necessary in versions 2.0+.
Example:
sstablescrub --skip-corrupted keyspace1 counter1