diff --git a/install/cassandra-install.sh b/install/cassandra-install.sh
index 9cce5d0f..8de74b04 100644
--- a/install/cassandra-install.sh
+++ b/install/cassandra-install.sh
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ cd /opt
 wget -q https://dlcdn.apache.org/cassandra/4.1.3/apache-cassandra-4.1.3-bin.tar.gz
 $STD tar -xvzf apache-cassandra-4.1.3-bin.tar.gz
 mv apache-cassandra-4.1.3 cassandra
+mv /opt/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml /opt/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml.bak
 cat <<EOF >/opt/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml
 # Cassandra storage config YAML