This one of the hottest issues for us as well. Only thing we have been able to think of is running on Solaris+ZFS and doing coordinated snapshots of the underlying filesystems. Not sure if even that would work (since the membership of the cluster can change from the time the snapshot was taken to when it is being restored to the snapshot).
Would be interested in knowing what other users/hdaoop-dev are doing/thinking in this area. -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Billy Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:30 AM To: hadoop-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: point in time snapshot I would assume that if I get a snap shot of dfs I would get hbase with that. I was going to use it for back of hbase but would like to be able to get a snapshoot of the whole dfs for back up reasons.. Billy "Jim Kellerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tlookonline.net... Billy, Are you referring to snapshots of the entire DFS or of HBase? --- Jim Kellerman, Senior Engineer; Powerset > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Billy > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:29 PM > To: hadoop-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: point in time snapshot > > I been looking around jira and can not find a issue on > snapshots is there an snapshot for backup option in the works? > > Say I want to do a backup on my data I would run a snapshot > and it would be stored in the dfs as a backup file(s) but I > could restore it if needed later down the road if current > data got corrupted or deleted lost etc... > > Billy > > > >
