Is it possible to recover a Cassandra node without a snapshot?
<p>Offsite backups for Cassandra seem like a challenging thing.  You basically have to make yet another copy of ALL your data, including the copies of data that exist due to the replication factor.  Snapshots make backups easy when you don't mind storing it on the same disk that your node already uses.  I'm curious - in the event of a catastrophic failure of this disk, is it possible to recover the node using the nodes that the data was replicated to?</p>