With consistent I mean it like in the mentioned blog article from Lars. We want 
to take a backup of our data in one specific time range, where the data is 
consistent in that time range.

My thoughts till now:
I want to do a full backup of our data every Saturday. During the week I want 
to take an incremental backup every 24 hours. It seems possible to do that with 
the export tool. For example, I want to take a (incremental) backup every 
midnight, I start the export tool five minutes after midnight with timestamps, 
where the starttime is 0 (or timestamp of the last backup if it is an 
incremental backup = midnight of the day before). Endtime is now - 5 Minutes = 
midnight. This data we can backup on a different machine/backup server.

It seems, that the article of Lars meets exactly my requirement, that's why I'm 
asked, if it is still up-to-date.

Taking snapshots with the snapshot tool gives me no data to pack on backup 
server, I guess.

bye,

        Timo

Am 23.12.2013 um 11:12 schrieb Matteo Bertozzi <[email protected]>:

> can you define what "consistent" means to you?
> for example online snapshots are row-consistent, but the snapshot of
> "Region 1" may be taken at time T0 and the snapshot of "Region N" a time T0
> + X seconds
> 
> Matteo
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Timo Schaepe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention. Taking the cluster offline is not an option.
>> We need an consistent backup of an online cluster. Our plan B is to build a
>> second cluster for replication and take offline snapshots from this cluster.
>> 
>> bye,
>> 
>>        Timo
>> 
>> 
>> Am 23.12.2013 um 11:02 schrieb Vladimir Rodionov <[email protected]
>>> :
>> 
>>> Offline snapshots?
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Vladimir Rodionov
>>> Principal Platform Engineer
>>> Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com
>>> e-mail: [email protected]
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: Timo Schaepe [[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 10:53 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Consistent Backup strategy
>>> 
>>> Hey guys,
>>> 
>>> we are searching for a consistent backup strategy with the export tool.
>> Is this article still up-to-date and I can use it?
>>> 
>>> 
>> http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2012/04/timestamp-consistent-backups-in-hbase.html
>>> 
>>> Thanks for answers.
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> 
>>>       Timo
>>> 
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