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Posted to common-dev@hadoop.apache.org by arindam choudhury <ar...@gmail.com> on 2011/11/24 12:08:39 UTC

Copying data between Hadoop

HI,

I want to copy some files from one HDFS to another. is it possible to do it
split by split like split a1 from node a go to node b?

-Arindam

Re: Copying data between Hadoop

Posted by Linden Hillenbrand <li...@cloudera.com>.
I agree, distcp is the way to go here, you can specify down to the
individual directory on HDFS. Also, you can add some flags to overwrite/not
overwrite. It's pretty flexible IMO.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Uma Maheswara Rao G
<ma...@huawei.com>wrote:

> Why con't you use distcp command here?
>
> Regards,
> Uma
> ________________________________________
> From: arindam choudhury [arindam732111@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 4:38 PM
> To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: Copying data between Hadoop
>
> HI,
>
> I want to copy some files from one HDFS to another. is it possible to do it
> split by split like split a1 from node a go to node b?
>
> -Arindam
>



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RE: Copying data between Hadoop

Posted by Uma Maheswara Rao G <ma...@huawei.com>.
Why con't you use distcp command here?

Regards,
Uma
________________________________________
From: arindam choudhury [arindam732111@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 4:38 PM
To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Copying data between Hadoop

HI,

I want to copy some files from one HDFS to another. is it possible to do it
split by split like split a1 from node a go to node b?

-Arindam