IMO the easier would be hbase export. For long term offline backup (for disaster recovery). It can even be stored on a different hdfs storage than the one used by hbase using a full hdfs:// url as destination directory. Le 5 mars 2013 22:52, "Leonid Fedotov" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 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.-- > >
