Hello Aij, Snapshots are the suggested method since HBase 0.94.6, they provide better consistency for backing up data in HBase. You can find more information in the HBase Book here:
https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots Depending on your use case and resources you might want to consider replication as well: http://hbase.apache.org/replication.html cheers, esteban. -- Cloudera, Inc. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:56 PM, R W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I'm using hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.Export > / org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.Import to backup and restore HBase > data, at least it's good to me, i would like to know if there are any > better solutions or practices on how to backup HBase data, that will be > really helpful for us, thanks. > > Cheers > aij >
