How to copy rows in an HBase table in Cloudera Express to an HBase table in Cloudera QuickStart?

[#1]

I am aware of the different ways to get data from an HBase table in one cluster to an HBase table in another cluster: CopyTable, snapshots, replication, export, distcp.  What I don't know is which of these methods (if any) are available when trying to copy from a Cloudera Express license to a Cloudera QuickStart instance that is running on another machine.

Which of these methods (if any) should be available?  For example, hbase-backup.jar which is required for replication does not exist on any of the hosts in my Cloudera Express cluster.  Does this mean that Cloudera Express doesn't support replication?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Currently, the CM BDR feature does not carry any HBase replication abilities (we do support schedulable snapshot policies, but no replication/copies yet). You will need to utilise standard HBase techniques to copy over the data between your two clusters: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/11/approaches-to-backup-and-disaster-recovery-in-hbase/, and I'd recommend the ExportSnapshot method (if not live replication).