Can I export an hbase table snapshot to say a datanode server's local filesystem directly?  i.e. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.ExportSnapshot -snapshot MySnapshot -copy-to fs://local_linux_fs_dir   The goal is to mount an NFS external storage on the localFS and export the snapshots there. ... View more

We require java 8 on the CDH cluster to support analytics tools so Cloudera’s suggestion to how to solve this would be very helpful at this point. We have a CDH cluster on AWS that was spun up using Cloudera Director. Unfortunately, that spun up with java 1.6 and 1.7 as Cloudera director automatically installs and points to 1.6   The upgrade to 1.8.0_60 isn’t going so smooth. We are going to put that aside for the moment and look to get a cluster spun up with 1.8.0_60 from the start. Is there a suggested path from Cloudera on this? We want to use Cloudera Director to handle the installs and looking for an official Cloudera response as to the use of java 8 as ‘the’ java to use for the cluster.   Cloudera’s docs on java 8 upgrade are abstracted out to a high level so obviously there are issues to get past. The issue I am seeing currently is on a data node and trying to spin it up after updating to 1.8.0_60. Screenshot attached.       ... View more