I've just created a new ticket in Jira and included the tool. Since the functionality is significantly different from that described by HBASE-50, it made sense to put it into a new issue rather than tack it onto that one.
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-897 On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM, stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Mason wrote: >> >> As far as I can tell there are two options: >> ... >> 2, Image the data stored on the HDFS cluster. Aren't there some big >> issues with it not grabbing a consistent image as some updates won't >> be flushed? Is there any way to force that, or to make it be >> consistent some way, perhaps via snapshoting? >> > > Yes (as others have said on this thread). > We need to add a means of snapshotting an hbase cluster sending a signal to > all members who on receipt flush their in-memory content to the filesystem > writing across the cluser some sort of snapshot label or a manifest of all > files that comprise the snapshot. Thereafter, I'd imagine an administrator > would start up a big MR job to do a distcp from one filesystem to another > out on some other cluster. HBASE-50 is the pertinent issue. > > Related, this proposed feature in HDFS looks like it would make snapshotting > HDFS a breeze: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3637. > > St.Ack > -- Dan Zinngrabe Alchemist -- Mahalo.com http://www.mahalo.com/member/quellish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
