Medusa is an Apache Cassandra backup system.

Medusa is a command line tool that offers the following features:

• Single node backup
• Single node restore
• Cluster wide in place restore (restoring on the same cluster that was used for the backup)
• Cluster wide remote restore (restoring on a different cluster than the one used for the backup)
• Backup purge
• Support for local storage, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Azure Blob Storage and AWS S3 (and its compatibles)
• Support for clusters using single tokens or vnodes
• Full or differential backups

Medusa currently does not support (but we would gladly accept help with changing that):

• Cassandra deployments with multiple data folder directories.

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage

For user questions and general/dev discussions, please join the #cassandra-medusa channel on the ASF slack at http://s.apache.org/slack-invite.

You can find the Docker images for Cassandra Medusa at https://hub.docker.com/r/k8ssandra/medusa.

Medusa requires Python 3.8 or newer.

For information on the packaged dependencies of Medusa for Apache Cassandra® and their licenses, check out our open source report.