You can start HBase backup master two ways, hbase-daemon.sh start master --backup or master-backup.sh
The first version is fresh HBase start that includes backup masters. The second version can be used while primary master already up, just to start the backup masters. Ravi Sent from my mobile phone. On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]> wrote: > You need to create a file in conf/ called backup-masters and in there > list hostnames like you do with conf/regionservers and they will be > started when you run bin/start-hbase.sh > > I had to dig in the scripts in order to remember how it was done, it > could be a nice addition to the book (wink wink). > > J-D > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:16 AM, shanmuganathan.r > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I configured the HBase in the distributed mode with 3 node >> cluster and that are working properly . I have some doubts about how to >> configure the multi master environment in the hbase . I studied about >> multimaster in the following link >> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/MultipleMasters . >> >> >> Please give me suggestion about where we specify the masters? >> and give also some example configurations of the Hbase in multi master >> environment....... >> >> >> Thanks for your valuable comments ...! >> >> Shanmuganathan >> >>
