Backing up data
While Cassandra itself goes a long way toward reducing the possibility of data loss, it cannot prevent loss or corruption due to administrative or application-level mistakes. For this reason, it is still advisable to maintain backups of critical tables to allow you to recover to a known good point in the past.
Taking a snapshot
Fundamentally, backing up data in Cassandra involves taking a snapshot of the SSTable for a given keyspace at a moment in time, as it must have all the tables in order to properly recover if needed. You can create a snapshot using nodetool as follows:
nodetool snapshot [keyspace_name]
This will create hardlinks to the current SSTables in that keyspace's snapshots directory (located inside the data directory, ...
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