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Backup, Recovery, and Moving Data

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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

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Alapati, S.R. (2018). Backup, Recovery, and Moving Data. In: Expert Apache Cassandra Administration. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3126-5_8

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