the end goal is to have a backup of our hbase tables.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Kevin O'dell <kevin.od...@cloudera.com>wrote: > 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 > -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.--
