How will you backup an HBase cluster

Question

Hello,

How is this possible to keep a backup for HBase cluster?

Answer 1

Hey,

In 2 ways we can perform HBase cluster backups-

• Live Cluster Backup:- In this method, to copy the data from one table to another on the same cluster or another cluster copy table utility is used. Also, to dump the content of the table onto HDFS on the same cluster, the export utility can be used.
• Full shutdown Backup:- While here, a period complete shutdown of the HBase cluster is performed and, only for back-end analytics capacity, this kind of approach can be used.

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