title: Backing up Cassandra Cluster with snapshots and uploading to s3/vm?
body: <p>Is backing up Cassandra using snapshots and uploading them a common thing to do with a cluster? </p>
  
  <p>I was thinking of having a cron job on each node take a snapshot, tar it, and upload it every 24 hours but I am a bit worried about the performance implications of it. Once the data on a node gets big couldn't this cripple it?</p>