This is basically the same process that I was referring to earlier except that if you have the ability to take snapshots, you can do this without downtime or using extra disk space for the copy.
To HBase's credit, you can do this while clients are doing a massive amount of updates. In fact, this provides an interesting way to test crash resistance of HBase. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Buttler, David <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I have done this in the past on a full cluster. The backup process is > slow for large data sets, but at least it is simple. > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Halbert [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:30 AM > To: users-hbase > Subject: Backup data for a single hbase instance > > 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 > >
