I'm exporting hbase tables from one cluster to another one using hbase export snapshot command in terminal. It works well for the majority of the tables i have, however it doesn't work for one specific table (which is the largest one). All the other tables have a size of Giga bytes, but the one table i have issues with have a size of Tera bytes (TB). The conclusion i come up is that, there might be a size limit for it, but i need a more convincing reason, or an idea about other alternative methods i can transfer this table to the new cluster. The steps i'm following when transferring the tables are - 1, take the snapshot of a table in the old cluster , snapshot 'table_name' 2, use hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.ExportSnapshot-snapshot -snapshot snapshot_name -copy-to hdfs://ip-address//apps/hbase/data -mappers 16 3, on the new cluster, restore_snapshot 'table_name' i would appreciate it if i get a quick reply, since it's very urgent matter.
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