Hello Paul, The default location for hbase data is /tmp so when you restart your machine it will be deleted, you need to change it as per http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#quickstart
-- Ibrahim On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Which HBase / hadoop version were you using ? > > Did you start the cluster in standalone mode ? > > Thanks > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Paul van Hoven < > paul.van.ho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > I just started with hbase. Therefore I created a table and filled this > > table with some data. But after restarting my computer all the data > > has gone. This even happens when stopping hbase with stop-hbase.sh. > > > > How can this happen? > > >