The answer to "can they solve your problem" is "yes". For "how to do this", start reading about your options here so you can pick what works best for your need (and your version of hbase): http://hbase.apache.org/book/ops.backup.html (and links out of this page) http://hbase.apache.org/book/ops.snapshots.html and HBase Backups from HBaseCon 2014: http://www.slideshare.net/HBaseCon/operations-session-5-35938493 http://vimeo.com/98359049
--Suraj On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Li Li <fancye...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all, > in my application, most of the time, we do not write to hbase but > only read. Every a few hours(or even a day), We do a lot of write > operations to hbase intensively. To avoid data lost, we also want > backup our data every day(or week) > I know hbase has advanced features like backup and cluster > replication. can they solve my problem? > If I am using traditional rdbms like mysql, I will use > master/slaves cluster. master only service write requests and slave > service read requests. Because my application do not need real time > feature, So I can tolerant latency. For data safety, I can monthly > full backup all data and incremental backup every day. > How can I do this in hbase? >
