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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 19:23:44 +0800
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Subject: Re: What is the best practice for backup HBase data?
From: R W <aijwjia@gmail.com>
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Hi Esteban

I checked the snapshot feature and tried myself, it's very good, one of the
introduction
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/03/introduction-to-apache-hbase-snapshots/mentioned
about:

Clone a snapshot: This operation creates a new table using the same schema
> and with the same data present in the specified snapshot. The result of
> this operation is a new fully functional table that can can be modified
> with no impact on the original table or the snapshot.


I think this clone operation will make a copy of the snapshot, then create
the new table from the copy of the snapshot, am i correct? Otherwise,
modification to the new table will change the snapshot, right?

Another question, if we want to backup hbase data somewhere else, it seems
we cannot go with snapshot feature, we want the data to be backup even
after the whole Hadoop cluster down, any idea?

Thanks
aij


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Esteban Gutierrez <esteban@cloudera.com>wrote:

> 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 <aijwjia@gmail.com> 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
> >
>

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