DistCP is typically used for HDFS level back up jobs. It can be used for HBase but can be quite tricky. I would recommend using Export, CopyTable, or Replication. These are tools designed for HBase backup. What is the end goal?
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Manish Bhoge <manishbh...@rocketmail.com>wrote: > Export and distcp has different application. Use discp when you need to > move data across clusters. Do you want to export table data outside your > cluster? If not then export table is better. > > Sent from HTC via Rocket! excuse typo. > > -- Kevin O'Dell Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera
