Back up and restore data using snapshots

About snapshots

A brief description of how Hyper-Converged Database (HCD) backs up data.

Take a snapshot

Steps for taking a global snapshot or per node.

Delete snapshot files

Steps to delete snapshot files.

Enable incremental snapshot backups

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

Restore from a snapshot

Methods for restoring from a snapshot.

Restore from a snapshot

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

Recover 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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