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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hadoop Administrator's Guide
  3. Performing backups and restores of Hadoop
  4. About backing up a Hadoop cluster
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hadoop Administrator's Guide

About backing up a Hadoop cluster

Use the NetBackup, Backup, Archive, and Restore console to manage backup operations.

Table: Backing up Hadoop data

Task

Reference

Process understanding

See Backing up Hadoop data.

(Optional) Complete the pre-requisite for Kerberos

See Pre-requisite for running backup and restore operations for a Hadoop cluster with Kerberos authentication.

Backing up a Hadoop cluster

See Backing up a Hadoop cluster.

Best practices

See Best practices for backing up a Hadoop cluster.

Troubleshooting tips

For discovery and cleanup related logs, review the following log file on the first backup host that triggered the discovery.

/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/nbaapidiscv

For data transfer related logs, search for corresponding backup host (using the hostname) in the log files on the master server.

See Troubleshooting backup issues for Hadoop data.

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