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HBase Archive ?

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Is there any way to archive HBase data like "Hadoop Archive" ?

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No, because HDFS is a filesystem and HBase is a key-value store ("database").

But, you can archive HBase tables easily. Please see the HBase snapshot feature: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots. 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.

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No, because HDFS is a filesystem and HBase is a key-value store ("database").

But, you can archive HBase tables easily. Please see the HBase snapshot feature: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots. 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.

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What benefit you are expecting by archiving hbase data like "Hadoop Archive"? or Is your purpose to just archive HBase data in any form?