Nope, goes beyond a VPN. 

Securing a cluster can be a very painful task. 


> On Mar 13, 2015, at 6:05 AM, Akmal Abbasov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Wilm,
> My initial choice was to use VPN, but I couldn’t find any related information.
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> putting the many good hints in this thread aside ... isn't this more a
>> question of network deployment, than a question for hbase or hadoop
>> features?
>> 
>> I think a more general plan would be the usage of some VPN channel
>> technology. By this plan
>> a) the data is transferred secure
>> b) the machines are not accessible by the normal internet.
>> 
>> As database servers shouldn't be located in the normal internet, you
>> already have to use some sort of protection against the rest of the
>> world. VPN approach would work for distcp, exportSnapshot, cluster
>> replication, or plain file system (for scp or such).
> Could you please explain a bit more in detail how achieve exportSnapshot to 
> go through VPN.
> Thank you.
> 
>> 
>> And, I know that sounds like a joke, perhaps sending it by mail could be
>> a good plan. E.g. 10TB in one day (postal service is fast here ;) ),
>> this would be a throughput of around 115 MB per second and would be
>> super safe (pgp encryption is a good plan nevertheless).
>> 
>> Furthermore I think that's a question for hbase-user.
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Wilm
>> 
>> Am 12.03.2015 um 18:38 schrieb Akmal Abbasov:
>>> Hi, I am new to Hadoop Hbase. I have a Hbase cluster in one datacenter, and 
>>> I need to  create a backup in the second one. Currently the second HBase 
>>> cluster is ready, and I would like to import data from first cluster.
>>> I would like to use exportSnapshot tool for this, I’ve tried it one my test 
>>> environment, and it worked well.
>>> But, since know I am going to export to a different cluster in different 
>>> datacenter, I would like to be sure that my data is secure. So how I can 
>>> make exportSnapshot secure?
>>> As far as I understood exportSnapshot uses distcp tool to copy snapshot to 
>>> destination cluster, so in this case is it enough to configure distcp?
>>> Thank you!

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