Backing up and restoring data are key functions of a Cassandra administrator. This chapter shows you how to back up your data by taking periodic snapshots of data. Cassandra also enables you to take incremental backups and back up the commit log segments. All these backups come in handy when you need to perform a full restore of the database.
Bulk loading and copying of data is also a common task, and I explain how to load data with the COPY command, as well as with the sstableloader utility.
Backing Up Data
Backing up a Cassandra database involves the ...
