Good article and is still relevant for me. I would also add the following for Kudu tables create table hive.TABLE_PARAMS_BKUP as select * from hive.TABLE_PARAMS ; UPDATE hive.TABLE_PARAMS SET PARAM_VALUE = 'masterhostname01.fqdn,masterhostname02.fqdn,masterhostname03.fqdn' WHERE PARAM_KEY = 'kudu.master_addresses' and PARAM_VALUE like '%oldmasterhostname%';  And also for Sentry URI's that contain the HDFS namespace create table sentry.SENTRY_DB_PRIVILEGE_BKUP as select * from sentry.SENTRY_DB_PRIVILEGE ; UPDATE sentry.SENTRY_DB_PRIVILEGE SET URI = REPLACE(URI, 'hdfs://oldcluster-ns', 'hdfs://newcluster-ns/') WHERE URI like '%oldcluster-ns%';   ... View more