I need to copy data from one HDFS to another HDFS Can you help me do so

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I have a setup which includes two Hadoop file systems, HDFS-x and HDFS-y. Now, I need to copy a few tables from HDFS-x to HDFS-y. I wish to do it without having to do a move or migrate operation. It is possible to do so via any of the commands?
May 16, 2019 in Big Data Hadoop by nitinrawat895
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I understood your issue.

Let me help you with a tool that can do the job for you.

  • DistCp is a tool named as a distributed copy which is used to copy data in between clusters. 
  • This tool basically uses MapReduce in the background to do the job.
  • This tool can also manage the jobs of Data Recovery, Error Handling, and Report generation.

Usage Method:

$ hadoop distcp <src> <dst>

Example:

$ hadoop distcp hdfs://loc1:8020/file-x hdfs://loc2:8020/file-y

Here file -x from loc1 HDFS is copied to file-y in loc2 of the second HDFS.

There are two versions of this software which are available, Namely:

answered May 16, 2019 by ravikiran
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