So I have read http://blog.sematext.com/2011/03/11/hbase-backup-options/
The built-in solution, namely the 'Export' and 'Import' classes are relatively straight forward to use, however, the exports include the data alone, and nothing in regards to the table description (column families, versioning etc.). Manually creating the table seems wrong to me, and parsing the output of 'describe table_name' seems like something that someone must have done before me. There is this: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk/bin/copy_table.rb But surely there is something nicer? Is there an all encompassing solution that I am unaware of? What is the basic correlating option to: mysqldump db_name table_name > file mysql db_name < file Or, if this is too Utopian in an hbase world, what is the next best thing? Thanks. Tom
