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). ... View more