I've created SPARK-3499 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3499> to track creating a Spark-based distcp utility.
Nick On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good question; I don't know of one but I believe people at Cloudera had > some thoughts of porting Sqoop to Spark in the future, and maybe they'd > consider DistCP as part of this effort. I agree it's missing right now. > > Matei > > On August 12, 2014 at 11:04:28 AM, Gary Malouf (malouf.g...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > We are probably still the minority, but our analytics platform based on > Spark + HDFS does not have map/reduce installed. I'm wondering if there is > a distcp equivalent that leverages Spark to do the work. > > Our team is trying to find the best way to do cross-datacenter replication > of our HDFS data to minimize the impact of outages/dc failure. > >