Hi, what is the reason to backup HDFS? It's distributed, reliable, fault-tolerant, e.t.c. NFS should expensive in order to keep TBs of data.
What problem you are trying to solve? 2015-04-09 20:35 GMT+02:00 Afroz Ahmad <ahmad....@gmail.com>: > We are planning to use the snapshot feature that takes a backup of a table > with 1.2 TB of data. We are planning to export the data using > ExportSnapshot and copy the resulting files to a NFS mount periodically. > > Out infrastructure team is very concerned about the amount of data that > will be going over the wire and how long it will take > > This is just one table. There may be other tables in the future that we > want to back up. > > So I wanted to get a sense of what others are doing with ExportSnapshot. > What is the size of the tables that are backed up and whether the concerns > raised by our infra team are valid? > > > Thanks > > Afroz >
