On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Yair Even-Zohar <[email protected]>wrote:
> I try to backup hbase is a brute force, yet a faster method by copying > everything under the adoop.tmp.dir which includes the namenode, data > etc. This will work while your dataset is small. A variant when your data gets bigger is to shutdown hbase and then do a MR copy of your hbase rootdir. See the 'distcp' option on ./bin/hadoop.. St.Ack
