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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hadoop Administrator's Guide
  3. Deploying the Hadoop plug-in
  4. Preparing the Hadoop cluster
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hadoop Administrator's Guide

Preparing the Hadoop cluster

Perform the following tasks to prepare the Hadoop cluster for NetBackup:

  • Ensure that the Hadoop directory is snapshot-enabled.

    To make a directory snapshottable, run the following command on the NameNodes:

    hdfs dfsadmin -allowSnapshot directory_name

    Note:

    A directory cannot be snapshot-enabled if one of its ancestors or descendants is a snapshot-enabled directory.

    For more information, refer to the Hadoop documentation.

  • Update firewall settings (port 50070 by default) so that the backup hosts can communicate with the Hadoop cluster.

  • Add the entries of all the NameNodes and DataNodes to the /etc/hosts file on all the backup hosts. You must add the hostname in FQDN format.

    Or

    Add the appropriate DNS entries in the /etc/resolve.conf file.

  • Ensure that webhdfs service is enabled on the Hadoop cluster.

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