How to import/export hbase data via hdfs (hadoop commands)

Question

I have saved my crawled data by nutch in Hbase whose file system is hdfs. Then I copied my data (One table of hbase) from hdfs directly to some local directory by command

Answer 1

If you can use the Hbase command instead to backup hbase tables you can use the Hbase ExportSnapshot Tool which copies the hfiles,logs and snapshot metadata to other filesystem(local/hdfs/s3) using a map reduce job.

• Take snapshot of the table

  $ ./bin/hbase shell hbase> snapshot 'myTable', 'myTableSnapshot-122112'

• Export to the required file system

  $ ./bin/hbase class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.ExportSnapshot -snapshot MySnapshot -copy-to fs://path_to_your_directory

You can export it back from the local file system to hdfs:///srv2:8082/hbase and run the restore command from hbase shell to recover the table from the snapshot.

 $ ./bin/hbase shell
 hbase> disable 'myTable'
 hbase> restore_snapshot 'myTableSnapshot-122112'

Reference:Hbase Snapshots