On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > >> From: Jeremy Pinkham >> As a simplistic approach, I was considering just stopping >> hbase and making a copy of its directory on DFS. > > Making periodic snapshots by shutting down your cluster and > doing a copy in HDFS is effective enough. You may want to > look at this also: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-897
Sidenote - I'll be updating 897 soon, hopefully. > > > There's no live backup or snapshot capability in HBase now. > You may want to monitor these issues: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-50 > One of these could produce results that support hot backup > at the file level. > > - Andy > > > > >
