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alwayslearning3456_191423 asked ·

Can we schedule incremental and log backups for specific intervals of time?

1. can we schedule log and incremental backups ?

2. how to remove old incremental backups

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Erick Ramirez answered ·
  1. Yes, you can.
  2. You need to manually delete the subdirectories in the backups/ folder.

Instead of managing your backups manually, I recommend you look into Cassandra Medusa -- an open-source backup and restore tool for Apache Cassandra. Cheers!

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