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DC/OS Apache Cassandra supports backup and restore to remote storage (AWS S3 and Microsoft Azure) for disaster recovery purposes.

How does it work?

Backup

As part of the backup process, DC/OS Apache Cassandra does following:

  1. Takes a schema backup of keyspaces and uploads it to remote storage.
  2. Takes a snapshot of tables and uploads it to remote storage.

Once the schema and snapshots have been uploaded to remote storage, you can restore the data to a new cluster in the event of a disaster, or restore them to an existing cluster if user error has caused a data loss.

Restore

As part of the restore process, DC/OS Apache Cassandra does following:

  1. Downloads the schema backup for keyspaces from remote storage and applies it to the Cassandra database.
  2. Downloads snapshots of tables from remote storage and restores them.

Note:

  • Backup and restore is not guaranteed to work across arbitrary versions of the Cassandra service. For example, restoring a backup from a 1.0.16 cluster to a 1.0.21 cluster will not work. It is recommended that backups be restored to clusters of the same version from which they were created.
  • Schema backup is currently only supported for S3 and is not available for Azure. If you are using Azure storage for backups, back up your schema manually.

Backup

You can take a complete snapshot of your DC/OS Apache Cassandra ring and upload the artifacts to S3 or to Azure.

Note: These instructions describe how to back up the data in your Cassandra ring. You must back up your Cassandra schemas manually in versions prior to 1.0.21.

S3 Backup

To perform a backup to S3, enter the following command on the DC/OS CLI:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> backup start \
    --backup_name=<backup-name> \
    --external_location=s3://<bucket-name> \
    --s3_access_key=<s3-access-key> \
    --s3_secret_key=<s3-secret-key>

To upload to S3, you must specify the "s3://" protocol for the external location along with setting the S3 flags for access key and secret key.

To cancel a currently running backup from the CLI, enter the following command:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> backup stop

The operation will end after the current node has finished its backup.

Azure Backup

To perform a backup to Azure, enter the following command on the DC/OS CLI:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> backup start \
    --backup_name=<backup-name> \
    --external_location=azure://<container> \
    --azure_account=<account_name> \
    --azure_key=<key>

To upload to Azure, you must specify the "azure://" protocol for the external location along with setting the Azure flags for Azure storage account and a secret key.

To cancel a currently running backup from the CLI, enter the following command:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> backup stop

The operation will end after the current node has finished its backup.

Restore

You can restore your DC/OS Apache Cassandra snapshots on a new Cassandra ring from S3 or from Azure storage.

S3 Restore

To restore, enter the following command on the DC/OS CLI:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> restore start \
    --backup_name=<backup-name> \
    --external_location=s3://<bucket-name> \
    --s3_access_key=<s3-access-key> \
    --s3_secret_key=<s3-secret-key>

To restore from S3, you must specify the "s3://" protocol for the external location along with setting the S3 flags for access key and secret key.

Check the status of the restore:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> restore status

Azure Restore

To restore, enter the following command on the DC/OS CLI:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> restore start \
    --backup_name=<backup-name> \
    --external_location=azure://<container-name> \
    --azure_account=<account_name> \
    --azure_key=<key>

To restore from Azure, you must specify the "azure://" protocol for the external location along with setting the Azure flags for Azure storage account and a secret key.

To check the status of the restore from the CLI, enter the following command:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> restore status

To cancel a currently running restore from the CLI, enter the following command:

dcos cassandra --name=<service-name> restore stop

The operation will end after the current node has finished its restore.