https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-are-the-best-practices-for-replicating-HDFS-and-Hive/m-p/45845#M42467 <P>What are the best tools available for DAta replication and their best practices?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance.</P> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 03:46:30 GMT SuriNuthalapati 2016-10-02T03:46:30Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-are-the-best-practices-for-replicating-HDFS-and-Hive/m-p/45845#M42467 <P>What are the best tools available for DAta replication and their best practices?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance.</P> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 03:46:30 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-are-the-best-practices-for-replicating-HDFS-and-Hive/m-p/45845#M42467 SuriNuthalapati 2016-10-02T03:46:30Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-are-the-best-practices-for-replicating-HDFS-and-Hive/m-p/45943#M42468 Cloudera offers Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) features as part of its enterprise offering that can do HDFS replication to other clusters, Hive metadata and data replication to other clusters, and also HBase snapshot backups to S3.<BR /><BR />This is documented in detail at <A href="https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/cm_bdr_about.html" target="_blank">https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/cm_bdr_about.html</A><BR /><BR />Outside of this you can try to use DistCp for HDFS replication but for Hive replication you will need to manually propagate DDL-associated metadata. Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:49:47 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-are-the-best-practices-for-replicating-HDFS-and-Hive/m-p/45943#M42468 Harsh J 2016-10-05T07:49:47Z