Cassandra stores the version of the SSTable within the filename, following the format Keyspace-ColumnFamily-(optional tmp marker-)SSTableFormat-generation Finding all sstables not matching version “ib” find /var/lib/cassandra/data/ -type f | grep -v -- -ib- | grep -v "/snapshots" The version numbers, to date are: // b (0.7.0): added version to sstable filenames // c (0.7.0): bloom filter ...