Rita, it seems like replication will be the best option for you. Take a look on this doc: http://hbase.apache.org/replication.html
Thank you! Sincerely, Leonid Fedotov On Mar 4, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Rita wrote: > the end goal is to have a backup of our hbase tables. > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Kevin O'dell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> DistCP is typically used for HDFS level back up jobs. It can be used for >> HBase but can be quite tricky. I would recommend using Export, CopyTable, >> or Replication. These are tools designed for HBase backup. What is the >> end goal? >> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Manish Bhoge >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Export and distcp has different application. Use discp when you need to >>> move data across clusters. Do you want to export table data outside your >>> cluster? If not then export table is better. >>> >>> Sent from HTC via Rocket! excuse typo. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin O'Dell >> Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera >> > > > > -- > --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
