What are best practices for backing up a cassandra cluster?
问题 I have a cassandra cluster with ~20 nodes in multiple datacenters. I want to back up the cassandra database. I want it to be possible to restore the backup to a new cluster even if every node in the existing one is simultaneously hit by a meteor. What exactly do I need to copy off of the server(s) and preserve in order to make a from-scratch restore of a cassandra database possible, and where are these items stored? I gather that this is not as simple as "take a snapshot and rsync it