@Neeraj Sabharwal how do i close the thread? I mean how to accept the answer.. ... View more

Yes @Neeraj Sabharwal ...Thats what i was thinking.. Also, I found some examples on Stackoverflow too.. thats why it was misleading. here is the link import to local ... View more

@Geoffrey, Yes, I accept it as an answer.. But is there a button I need to click to close this? ... View more

@Benjamin When I looked at the Sqoop parameters, it said it can be downloaded to local FS thats why I was trying it out. ... View more

@Geoffrey, Here is the code, I'm using the options file to run sqoop import -fs file:////home/kbollam/temp/ --connect jdbc:teradata://172.19.7.22/database=BIGDATA_POC --connection-manager org.apache.sqoop.teradata.TeradataConnManager --username xxxxx --password xxxxx --fields-terminated-by '\0x021' --lines-terminated-by '\n' --table tableName Thanks ... View more

Thanks @Geoffrey, we are planning to import around 20 G of data.. so it should work as per the doc. ... View more

@Neeraj, Instead of setting up fastimport , we would like to leverage existing sqoop setup. On apache site it is mentioned we can use "local FS" option to import to local filesystem but it is not working.. Apache sqoop We don't want to duplicate the data in HDFS and local FS. Thanks Kiran ... View more

Neeraj, Mapreduce.tar.gz file is present in HDFS under /hdp/apps folder. I'm getting the error shown above when I'm trying to import the Table from teradata to Local Filesystem. The import runs fine if it is from Table to HDFS. Do you have any sample for importing from Teradata to Local Filesystem. Thanks ... View more

yes Ben, the file exists in the HDFS. Do you have any running example of options file on how to import a table into local file system. Thanks Kiran ... View more