Thanks Guo and Eric for replying, I have some confusions about commit log backup:
1. commit log archival technique is ( https://support.datastax.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001593706-Manual-Backup-and-Restore-with-Point-in-time-and-table-level-restore- ) as good as an incremental backup, as it also captures commit logs after memtable flush. 2. If we go for "Snapshot + Incremental bk + Commit log", here we have to take commit log from commit log directory (is there any SOP for this?). As commit logs are not per table or ks, we will have chalange in restoring selective tables. 3. Snapshot based backups are easy to manage and operate due to its simplicity. But they are heavy on storage. Any views on this? 4. Please share any successful strategy that someone is using for production. We are still in the design phase and want to implement the best solution. Thanks Eric for sharing link for medusa. Regards, Adarsh Kumar On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 5:16 PM guo Maxwell <cclive1...@gmail.com> wrote: > For me, I think the last one : > Snapshot + Incremental + commitlog > is the most meaningful way to do backup and restore, when you make the > data backup to some where else like AWS S3. > > - Snapshot based backup // for incremental data will not be backuped > and may lose data when restore to the time latter than snapshot time; > - Incremental backups // better than snapshot backup .but > with Insufficient data accuracy. For data remain in the memtable will be > lose; > - Snapshot + incremental > - Snapshot + commitlog archival // better data precision than made > incremental backup, but the data in the non archived commitlog(not archive > and commitlog log not closed) will not restore and will lose. Also when log > is too much, do log reply will cost very mucu time > > For me ,We use snapshot + incremental + commitlog archive. We read > snapshot data and incremental data .Also the log is backuped .But we will > not backup the > log whose data have been flush to sstable ,for the data will be backuped > by the way we do incremental backup . > > This way , the data will exist in the format of sstable trough snapshot > backup and incremental backup . The log number will be very small .And log > replay will not cost much time. > > > > Eric LELEU <e...@strapdata.com> 于2019年11月27日周三 下午4:13写道： > >> Hi, >> TheLastPickle & Spotify have released Medusa as Cassandra Backup tool. >> >> See : >> https://thelastpickle.com/blog/2019/11/05/cassandra-medusa-backup-tool-is-open-source.html >> >> Hope this link will help you. >> >> Eric >> >> >> Le 27/11/2019 à 08:10, Adarsh Kumar a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> I was looking for the backup strategies of Cassandra. After some study I >> came to know that there are the following options: >> >> - Snapshot based backup >> - Incremental backups >> - Snapshot + incremental >> - Snapshot + commitlog archival >> - Snapshot + Incremental + commitlog >> >> Which is the most suitable and feasible approach? Also which of these is >> used most. >> Please let me know if there is any other option to tool available. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Regards, >> Adarsh Kumar >> >> > > -- > you are the apple of my eye ! >
