Pre-Upgrade Steps for Hive
Complete the following steps before you upgrade Hive with or without the MapR Installer.
About this task
You need to back up the metastore database in case an error occurs during the Hive upgrade. You also need to back up configuration files if you made configuration changes that you want to carry over to the next version.
Procedure
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Back up the metastore database.
mysqldump -u<user> -p<passwd> <metastore_db_name> -r metastore-db-dump.sql -
Copy the configuration files in
/opt/mapr/hive/hive-<version>/conf/to a location outside the MapR installation directory.After upgrading, you can reapply changes to the updated Hive installation using the backup. -
Stop Hive services.
maprcli node services -name hivemeta -action stop -nodes <list of hive nodes> maprcli node services -name hs2 -action stop -nodes <list of hive nodes> maprcli node services -name hcat -action stop -nodes <list of hive nodes>