October 2018
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Incremental backups instruct Apache Cassandra to create links to newly flushed memtables since the last snapshot was taken. This has the effect of keeping point-in-time snapshots up-to-date with the latest writes. Incremental backups are disabled by default, but can be enabled by editing the following line in the cassandra.yaml file of each node:
incremental_backups: true