How are your caches configured? If they have at least one backup, you should be
able to restart one node at a time without data loss.
There is no automated way to reset lost partitions. Nor should there be (IMHO).
If you have lost partitions, you have probably lost data. That should require
man
My cache config for distributed cache is as follows... The maintenance of a
machine can be about 10-20 mins depending on what the maintenance is. I
don't lose data. I just get "all partition owners have left" message and
then I just use control script to reset the flag for that specific cache.