If you are restoring the backup to get back to previous point in them, then you
will want to remove all hints from the cluster. You will also want to stop
recording them, IIRC the only way to do that is via a yaml config.
If you are restoring the data to recover from some sort of loss, then kee
When restoring a backup for the entire cluster my understanding is that
you must shutdown the entire cluster and then restore the backup and
then start up all nodes again.
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/operations/backup_restore
But how should I handle hinted handoffs (Hints CF). Since they're