rename keyspace and columnfamily in cassandra 1.2

Question

How to rename keyspace and columnfamily in cassandra 1.2? I know that cassandra-cli rename api is no longer supported - How to rename keyspace in Cassandra. Maybe there are

Answer 1

Renaming is disabled internally, not just within the thrift API. So there isn't a CQL command to do it either.

However, there is a manual process which is described here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1585