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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for HBase Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring NetBackup for HBase
  4. Configuring the HBase plug-in using the HBase configuration file
  5. Configuring NetBackup for a highly-available HBase cluster
Veritas NetBackup™ for HBase Administrator's Guide

Configuring NetBackup for a highly-available HBase cluster

To protect a highly-available HBase cluster, when you configure NetBackup for HBase cluster:

  • Specify one of the HMaster (primary) as the client in the BigData policy.

  • Specify the same HMaster (primary and fail-over) as application server when you execute the tpconfig command.

  • Create a hbase.conf file, update it with the details of the HMaster (primary and fail-over), and copy it to all the backup hosts. The hbase.conf file is in JSON format.

  • Hostname and port of the HMaster must be same as you have specified with the http address parameter in the hbase-site.xml of the HBase cluster.

  • User name of the primary and fail-over HMaster must be same.

  • Do not provide a blank value for any of the parameters, or the backup job fails.

To update the HBase.conf file for highly-available HBase cluster

  1. Update the hbase.conf file with the following parameters:
    {
     "application_servers": 
     {
    		"hostname_of_primary_HMaster1":
    		{
    			"failover_HMaster":
    			[
    				{
    					"hostname": "hostname_of_failover_HMaster1"
    			}				
    	 	]
    		 
      }
     }
    }
    
  2. If you have multiple HBase clusters, use the same hbase.conf file to update the details. For example,
    {
    	"application_servers": 
     {
    		"hostname_of_primary_HMaster1":
      {
    		 "failover_HMaster":
       [
    			 {
    				 "hostname": "hostname_of_failover_HMaster1"
    				 
    			 }
    	 	],
       
      },
      "hostname_of_primary_HMaster2":
      {
    		 "failover_HMaster":
       [
    			 {
    			  "hostname": "hostname_of_failover_HMaster2",
    			  
    			 }
    	 	],
    	}
     }
    }
    
  3. Copy this file to the following location on all the backup hosts:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/

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