@ARUN, Both the mathods "Copytable" and "Import/Export of table" are good for this but they will degrade the performance of regionserver while copying. I would preffer "Snapshot" mathod best for Backup and Recovery. Note:- Snapshot method will only work if both cluster are of same version of Hbase. I tried it. If your both cluster hbase versions are different then you can use Copytable method. Snapshot method, Go to hbase-shell and Take a snapshot of table, =>hbase shell =>snapshot "SOURCE_TABLE_NAME","SNAPSHOT_TABLE_NAME" Then you can Export that snapshot to other cluster like, =>bin/hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.ExportSnapshot -snapshot SNAPSHOT_TABLE_NAME -copy-to hdfs://DESTINATION_CLUSTER_ACTIVE_NAMENODE_ADDRESS:8020/hbase -mappers 16 After this you can restore the table on DESTINATION Cluster as,On Dest_Cluster, =>hbase shell =>disable "DEST_TABLENAME" =>restore_snapshot "SNAPSHOT_TABLE_NAME" Done your table will be copied.
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