Hi @djtapl01, You could try performing reverse distcp. Cluster 1 is non-HA cluster and will always have same Active Namenode. When you run command on cluster2, hdfs will identify the internal nameservice. You could try running distcp on the cluster 2 with below syntax cluster2_node # hadoop distcp hdfs://<ANN_cluster1>:<port>/<filepath> hdfs://<nameservice_cluster2>/filepath Thank you. ... View more