Flush all tables before copying and if you can, suspend writes during the copy (after the flush has finished -- watch logs for when its finished). After copying the data, try starting an hbase over it to make sure your copy works. Let us know if you run into issue. St.Ack
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Joel Halbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a standalone, single, HBase instance (not running on Hadoop, or > in a cluster). > > What's the best strategy for creating a backup of the data? > > I can afford downtime so is it safe to simply create a copy of the > hbase.rootdir ? > > Thanks > Joel > >
