Copying Data

About this task

NOTE The Apache CopyTable tool launches a MapReduce application. The nodes on your cluster must have the correct version of the mapr-hbase package installed. To ensure that your existing HBase applications and workflow work properly, install the mapr-hbase package that provides the same version number of HBase as your existing Apache HBase.
Launch the CopyTable tool with the following command, specifying the full destination path of the table with the --new.name parameter: 
hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.CopyTable
-Dhbase.zookeeper.quorum=<ZooKeeper IP Address>
-Dhbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort=5181 --new.name=/user/john/foo/mytable01

This example migrates the existing Apache HBase table mytable01 to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables /user/john/foo/mytable01. On the node in the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster where you will launch the CopyTable tool, modify the value of the hbase.zookeeper.quorum property in the hbase-site.xml file to point at a ZooKeeper node in the source cluster. Alternately, you can specify the value for the hbase.zookeeper.quorum property from the command line. This example specifies the value in the command line.

Procedure

  1. Create the destination table. This example uses the HBase shell. The maprcli and the Control System are also viable methods. 
    [user@host]$ hbase shell
HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands.
Type "exit<RETURN>" to leave the HBase Shell

hbase(main):001:0> create '/user/john/foo/mytable01', 'usernames', 'userpath'
0 row(s) in 0.2040 seconds
  2. Exit the HBase shell. 
    hbase(main):002:0> exit
[user@host]
  3. From the command line, use the CopyTable tool to migrate data. 
    [user@host] hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.CopyTable -Dhbase.zookeeper.quorum=zknode1,zknode2,zknode3 --new.name=/user/john/foo/mytable01 mytable01