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sstableverify
-------------

Check sstable(s) for errors or corruption, for the provided table.

ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5791

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
^^^^^
sstableverify <options> <keyspace> <table>

===================================                   ================================================================================
--debug                                               display stack traces
-e, --extended                                        extended verification
-h, --help                                            display this help message
-v, --verbose                                         verbose output
===================================                   ================================================================================

Basic Verification
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is the basic verification. It is not a very quick process, and uses memory. You might need to increase your memory settings if you have many sstables.

Example::

    sstableverify keyspace eventlog
    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db') (7.353MiB)
    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db') (3.775MiB)
    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')
    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')

Extended Verification
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

During an extended verification, the individual values will be validated for errors or corruption. This of course takes more time.

Example::

    root@DC1C1:/# sstableverify -e keyspace eventlog
    WARN  14:08:06,255 Only 33.096GiB free across all data volumes. Consider adding more capacity to your cluster or removing obsolete snapshots
    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db') (7.353MiB)
    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db')
    Extended Verify requested, proceeding to inspect values
    Verify of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-32-big-Data.db') succeeded. All 33211 rows read successfully
    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db') (3.775MiB)
    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')
    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db')
    Extended Verify requested, proceeding to inspect values
    Verify of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-37-big-Data.db') succeeded. All 17068 rows read successfully

Corrupted File
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Corrupted files are listed if they are detected by the script.

Example::

    sstableverify keyspace eventlog
    Verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db') (7.416MiB)
    Deserializing sstable metadata for BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db')
    Checking computed hash of BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db')
    Error verifying BigTableReader(path='/var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db'): Corrupted: /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db

A similar (but less verbose) tool will show the suggested actions::

    nodetool verify keyspace eventlog
    error: Invalid SSTable /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace/eventlog-6365332094dd11e88f324f9c503e4753/mc-40-big-Data.db, please force repair