Cool stuff guys! This is pretty similar to what the FB guys did with their backup stuff. Using the WALPlayer is really nice though and solid docs.
Have you taken a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5547? It might help with your backup M/R job (nit: not quite snapshot, but pretty close :) -Jesse ------------------- Jesse Yates 240-888-2200 @jesse_yates jyates.github.com On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Espinoza,Carlos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was asked to mention this on the mailing list. At OCLC, we are working > > towards moving our data to HBase. A huge requirement is to backup our > > data, obviously, and seeing that this is still a work in progress, we > > decided to write something for ourselves. Using all the resources that > > we found available on Jira, the HBase book, etc., we came up with a few > > tools that we are currently testing and using. We were able to upload it > > to github, so here it is > > > > > > > > https://github.com/oclc/HBase-Backup > > > > Nice. > > Jesse, Lars, you fellas should take a looksee.... > St.Ack >
