Backing up and restoring data using snapshots

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 snapshot backups: Steps to enable incremental snapshot 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 from a snapshot: 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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