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Posted to user@cassandra.apache.org by Jonathan Ellis <jb...@gmail.com> on 2012/05/01 03:49:43 UTC

Re: incremental_backups

Incremental snapshots contain only new data, so they are *much* smaller.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Tamar Fraenkel <ta...@tok-media.com>wrote:

> Hi!
> I wonder what are the advantages of doing incremental snapshot over non
> incremental?
> Are the snapshots smaller is size? Are there any other implications?
> Thanks,
>
> *Tamar Fraenkel *
> Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media
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