yeah i also asked the same question few days and ago and started exploring this blog. as you rightly said, i got similar inputs from other people as well. there is no right/good way. most ways have limitations, so you have to live with what you have.
what i also learned in the process is using hdfs replication is also a decent approach. thanks On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]>wrote: > I saw one broken link (the Mozilla backup tool), but the rest works > and the explanations are there. > > Currently there's not a single perfect way that's fast yet secure to > use, so it would be very difficult to know which one to recommend > without first knowing which tradeoffs you're willing to make. > > Just to give you an example, at StumbleUpon we backup HBase in two ways: > > - HBase replication to a different cluster in another data center. It > used to be unstable but it's got a whole lot better. > - Hourly distcp (using -update and -delete). It's super dirty, but as > a last resort it can save your life. > > J-D > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Shahnawaz Saifi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello friends, > > > > We are planning to put Hbase in production and regarding Hbase backup I > > tried to follow http://blog.sematext.com/2011/03/11/hbase-backup-optionsbut > > some of the links are inactive on it. > > > > I am looking to find-out best and reliable way to backup hbase. Please > > suggest. > > > > -- > > Thanks in advance, > > Shah > > >
