On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote:
> Manuel, > > You can also just start the second HDFS cluster in parallel, and do an > "hadoop fs -cp hdfs://original-nn/hbase hdfs://new-nn/hbase" (or a > distcp) and then start HBase services on the new cluster (make sure zk > quorum is separate or has a different hbase-rootdir though). > > Thanks for the replies. The goal is to minimize the offline time, and the copy time would be longer than the time needed by the HDFS replication to catch a couple of new blocks. Our proposal is similar to an incremental backup.
