How to copy an existing hbase table

Assuming you want to copy the table on the same cluster you can use HBase snapshotsin the hbase shell you can

snapshot 'sourceTable', 'sourceTable-snapshot'clone_snapshot 'sourceTable-snapshot', 'newTable'

hadoop cloud hbase

CopyTable command is very handy to replicate HBase Tables. Use it in the following way:

hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.CopyTable --new.name=Y X;

hadoop cloud hbase

use hbase shell
1. make sure you enbale snapshot in hbase-site.xml

  <property>     <name>hbase.snapshot.enabled</name>     <value>true</value>    </property>

2. hbase> snapshot 'x' ,'snapshot_x'
3. hbase> clone_snapshot 'snapshot_x' ,'another_x'

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