Hbase / How to Migrate

[Colin Kincaid Williams <di...@uw.edu>]

I'm preparing to migrate an hbase database between clusters, but using the
same hbase version 0.92.1-cdh4.1.3. I found the document
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HowToMigrate had a link to an older
document about the design http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Migration .
In that document was the statment:

Sometimes, the amount of on-filesystem data that needs to be changed will
be large so migration will need to run a MR job.

I am planning on migrating a large HBase database in the near future. Will
the  /bin/hbase migrate work for migrating a large database, or will it
require another method? If so can anybody point me to a reference or give a
suggestion?

Here is my version information:

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cloudera.hash=6b9dd3937f29975967eedf47fddd0c0f0af845ff
cloudera.base-branch=cdh4-base-0.92.1
cloudera.build-branch=cdh4-0.92.1_4.1.3
cloudera.pkg.version=0.92.1+165
cloudera.pkg.release=1.cdh4.1.3.p0.23
cloudera.pkg.name=hbase
cloudera.cdh.release=cdh4.1.3
cloudera.build.time=2013.01.27-01:03:15GMT