Flume is designed to transfer event-formatted data, and does not move files as such. Flume will break down files into "events" (you can customize how Flume does this by writing your own deserializer), and write these out. If you need the original files in the exact same files, you can use the file information in the event headers, which can be interpreted using a serializer to annotate the file name information - and then rename it using an MR job. Flume does not directly support ingesting the files as is. ... View more