Backing up and restoring data
DSE OpsCenter provides automated backup and restore functionality, see Backup Service.
- About snapshots
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A brief description of how DataStax Enterprise backs up data. 
- Taking a snapshot
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Steps for taking a global snapshot or per node. 
- Deleting snapshot files
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Steps to delete snapshot files. 
- Enabling incremental backups
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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
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Methods for restoring from a snapshot. 
- Restoring a snapshot into a new cluster
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Steps for restoring a snapshot by recovering the cluster into another newly created cluster. 
- Recovering from a single disk failure using JBOD
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Steps for recovering from a single disk failure in a disk array using JBOD (just a bunch of disks). 
