You can also snapshot each of the 647 tables. In case something goes unexpected, you can restore any of them.
FYI On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Chathuri Wimalasena <kamalas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > We have production system using hadoop 2.5.1 and HBase 0.94.23. We have > nearly around 200 TB of data in HDFS and we are planning to upgrade to > newer hadoop version 2.7.2. In HBase we have roughly 647 tables. Before the > upgrade, we want to back up HBase tables in case of data loss or corruption > while upgrade. We are thinking of using export and import functionality to > export each table. Is there any other recommended way to back up hbase > tables ? > > Thanks, > Chathuri >
