Hi Michael! I don't think that it is true that you can only backup system that are down, the backup tools that are posted in HBASE-974 can be used on system that are up and running. What that will do for you is to scan the tables and serialize those to disk and the other way around when importing.
Will that work for you? Regards Erik On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Michael Dagaev <michael.dag...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, all > > As I understand from the discussions on the list, > we can backup the file system only if Hbase is down. > > If we want to run backup when Hbase is up > we can work on the Hbase level, i.e. use scan, > MR export/import utils, etc. but we cannot backup > on the file system level. > > Is it correct? > > Thank you for your cooperation, > M. >
