@Al John Mangahas Distcp spins off MapReduce jobs on the cluster it is running on/from. You can use the Yarn UI on that cluster to monitor the job progress and utilization. Having said that, if you are copying from a Prod cluster to a DR cluster, and are worried about resource usage, then you can actually run the Distcp job on the DR cluster and have it "pull" the data from Prod. That way, the impact in terms of resources on Prod is minimal.
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