HDFS DR Recipe

Overview

Falcon supports HDFS DR recipe to replicate data from source cluster to destination cluster.

Usage

Setup cluster definition.

    $FALCON_HOME/bin/falcon entity -submit -type cluster -file /cluster/definition.xml
   

Update recipes properties

Update recipe properties file in addons/recipes/hdfs-replication with required attributes for replicating data from source cluster to destination cluster.

Submit HDFS DR recipe

    $FALCON_HOME/bin/falcon recipe -name hdfs-replication -operation HDFS_REPLICATION
   

Recipe templates for HDFS DR is available in addons/recipes/hdfs-replication and copy it to recipe path (falcon.recipe.path=<recipe directory path>) by specifying in client.properties.