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Cloudera Administration Handbook

You're reading from   Cloudera Administration Handbook A complete, hands-on guide to building and maintaining large Apache Hadoop clusters using Cloudera Manager and CDH5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558964
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rohit Menon Rohit Menon
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Apache Hadoop 2. HDFS and MapReduce FREE CHAPTER 3. Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop 4. Exploring HDFS Federation and Its High Availability 5. Using Cloudera Manager 6. Implementing Security Using Kerberos 7. Managing an Apache Hadoop Cluster 8. Cluster Monitoring Using Events and Alerts 9. Configuring Backups 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 backups using Cloudera Manager

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:
    Configuring HDFS replication
  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:
    Configuring HDFS replication
  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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