Hi there- Have you tried this?
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#copytable It's the Java invocation of the copy-table function (without the ruby) On 9/7/11 8:29 PM, "Tom Goren" <t...@tomgoren.com> wrote: >So I have read http://blog.sematext.com/2011/03/11/hbase-backup-options/ > >The built-in solution, namely the 'Export' and 'Import' classes are >relatively straight forward to use, however, the exports include the data >alone, and nothing in regards to the table description (column families, >versioning etc.). > >Manually creating the table seems wrong to me, and parsing the output of >'describe table_name' seems like something that someone must have done >before me. > >There is this: >http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk/bin/copy_table.rb >But surely there is something nicer? > >Is there an all encompassing solution that I am unaware of? > >What is the basic correlating option to: > >mysqldump db_name table_name > file >mysql db_name < file > >Or, if this is too Utopian in an hbase world, what is the next best thing? > >Thanks. >Tom
