title: Shipping snapshots/sstables between Cassandra instances
body: <p>When I truncate a column family in Cassandra, it will make a hard link to the live sstables and then move on. Is it possible to take those snapshotted sstables and move them to a completely independent Cassandra cluster? I'd want the same schema in it, but it should store the stuff that was deleted from my main cluster (probably with a lower replication factor and such)</p>
  
  <p>Is something along these lines possible/advisable/practical?</p>