Backing up and restoring data

DSE OpsCenter provides automated backup and restore functionality, see Backup Service.

About snapshots

A brief description of how DataStax Enterprise backs up data.

Taking a snapshot

Steps for taking a global snapshot or per node.

Deleting snapshot files

Steps to delete snapshot files.

Enabling incremental backups

Steps to enable incremental backups. When incremental backups are enabled, DataStax Enterprise hard-links each memtable flushed to an SSTable to a backups directory under the keyspace data directory.

Restoring from a snapshot

Methods for restoring from a snapshot.

Restoring a snapshot into a new cluster

Steps for restoring a snapshot by recovering the cluster into another newly created cluster.

Recovering from a single disk failure using JBOD

Steps for recovering from a single disk failure in a disk array using JBOD (just a bunch of disks).

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