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Cloudera Administration Handbook

By : Rohit Menon
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Cloudera Administration Handbook

By: Rohit Menon

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Cloudera Administration Handbook
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring backups using Cloudera Manager


Cloudera provides a licensed feature for backups. From the Cloudera Manager toolbar, navigate to the Backup menu to find the backup features, as shown in the following screenshot:

Configuring HDFS replication

Replications allow an administrator to replicate data from one cluster to another. The following are the steps to configure a schedule for HDFS replication:

  1. Navigate to Backups | Replications to bring up the screen shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Under the Schedules tab, schedules for HDFS replications and Hive replication can be configured. Click on Schedule HDFS Replication to bring up the screen as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. As you can see in the preceding screenshot, the Source, Destination, and Schedule fields for HDFS replication can be configured. In this configuration, we have configured a schedule to replicate data from the source folder from HDFS in hdfs (Cluster 1) to the destination folder of HDFS in hdfs2 (Cluster 2).

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