https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HBase-Archive/m-p/152072#M48799 <P>No, because HDFS is a filesystem and HBase is a key-value store ("database").</P><P>But, you can archive HBase tables easily. Please see the HBase snapshot feature: <A href="http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots" target="_blank">http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots</A>. Using this feature, you can take a point-in-time view of a table, and copy all of the referenced files to some location in HDFS or elsewhere.</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:16:23 GMT elserj 2016-12-14T12:16:23Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HBase-Archive/m-p/152071#M48798 <P>Is there any way to archive HBase data like "Hadoop Archive" ?</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:07:43 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HBase-Archive/m-p/152071#M48798 srinivaspadala_ 2016-12-14T12:07:43Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HBase-Archive/m-p/152072#M48799 <P>No, because HDFS is a filesystem and HBase is a key-value store ("database").</P><P>But, you can archive HBase tables easily. Please see the HBase snapshot feature: <A href="http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots" target="_blank">http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots</A>. Using this feature, you can take a point-in-time view of a table, and copy all of the referenced files to some location in HDFS or elsewhere.</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:16:23 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HBase-Archive/m-p/152072#M48799 elserj 2016-12-14T12:16:23Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HBase-Archive/m-p/152073#M48800 <P>What benefit you are expecting by archiving hbase data like "Hadoop Archive"? or Is your purpose to just archive HBase data in any form?</P> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:16:12 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HBase-Archive/m-p/152073#M48800 asinghal 2016-12-14T13:16:12Z