Backing-up HBASE

[Shahnawaz Saifi <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hello friends,

We are planning to put Hbase in production and regarding Hbase backup I
tried to follow http://blog.sematext.com/2011/03/11/hbase-backup-options but
some of the links are inactive on it.

I am looking to find-out best and reliable way to backup hbase. Please
suggest.

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Thanks in advance,
Shah

Re: Backing-up HBASE

[Vinod Gupta Tankala <tv...@readypulse.com>]

yeah i also asked the same question few days and ago and started exploring
this blog. as you rightly said, i got similar inputs from other people as
well. there is no right/good way. most ways have limitations, so you have to
live with what you have.

what i also learned in the process is using hdfs replication is also a
decent approach.

thanks

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>wrote:

> I saw one broken link (the Mozilla backup tool), but the rest works
> and the explanations are there.
>
> Currently there's not a single perfect way that's fast yet secure to
> use, so it would be very difficult to know which one to recommend
> without first knowing which tradeoffs you're willing to make.
>
> Just to give you an example, at StumbleUpon we backup HBase in two ways:
>
>  - HBase replication to a different cluster in another data center. It
> used to be unstable but it's got a whole lot better.
>  - Hourly distcp (using -update and -delete). It's super dirty, but as
> a last resort it can save your life.
>
> J-D
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Shahnawaz Saifi <sh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello friends,
> >
> > We are planning to put Hbase in production and regarding Hbase backup I
> > tried to follow http://blog.sematext.com/2011/03/11/hbase-backup-optionsbut
> > some of the links are inactive on it.
> >
> > I am looking to find-out best and reliable way to backup hbase. Please
> > suggest.
> >
> > --
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Shah
> >
>

Re: Backing-up HBASE

[Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>]

I saw one broken link (the Mozilla backup tool), but the rest works
and the explanations are there.

Currently there's not a single perfect way that's fast yet secure to
use, so it would be very difficult to know which one to recommend
without first knowing which tradeoffs you're willing to make.

Just to give you an example, at StumbleUpon we backup HBase in two ways:

 - HBase replication to a different cluster in another data center. It
used to be unstable but it's got a whole lot better.
 - Hourly distcp (using -update and -delete). It's super dirty, but as
a last resort it can save your life.

J-D

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Shahnawaz Saifi <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> We are planning to put Hbase in production and regarding Hbase backup I
> tried to follow http://blog.sematext.com/2011/03/11/hbase-backup-options but
> some of the links are inactive on it.
>
> I am looking to find-out best and reliable way to backup hbase. Please
> suggest.
>
> --
> Thanks in advance,
> Shah
>