Hi @arunek95  Thanks for your response! "May I know if you are planning to backup the HDFS data or the host data ? " Yes, I need to backup HDFS data as well. "snapshot can be a good approach" , is it supported by Cloudera? I'm wondering if a heavy operational cluster with a distributed master services on master nodes can be done smoothly without facing dependencies issues, especially preserving a one-state for all master services across all master nodes at the exact same time while taking snapshot can't be granted easily, especially if we decide it would be a hot snapshot (not cold).  Regards, - Mahmoud ... View more