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Life & fun · June 25, 2015

Legacy – A lightweight Cassandra backup-to-S3 tool written in Go

Legacy is a light weight Cassandra backup utility suitable for backing up snapshots and incremental backups to Amazon S3. - iamthemovie/legacy

Legacy – A lightweight Cassandra backup-to-S3 tool written in Go launched on June 25, 2015 with 12 votes, #1,472 of 3,954 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

In plain words

Legacy is a lightweight Cassandra backup utility written in Go that backs up database snapshots and incremental backups to Amazon S3. It is designed for teams managing Cassandra databases who need a simple tool to store backups in cloud storage. The tool stands out for its lightweight design and support for both full snapshots and incremental backups.

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