HBASE-16574 Book updates for backup and restore
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[[casestudies]]
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= Backup and Restore
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:doctype: book
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:numbered:
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:toc: left
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:icons: font
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[[br.overview]]
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== Overview
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Backup and restore is a standard operation provided by many databases. An effective backup and restore
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strategy helps ensure that users can recover data in case of unexpected failures. The HBase backup and restore
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feature helps ensure that enterprises using HBase as a canonical data repository can recover from catastrophic
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failures. Another important feature is the ability to restore the database to a particular
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point-in-time, commonly referred to as a snapshot.
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The HBase backup and restore feature provides the ability to create full backups and incremental backups on
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tables in an HBase cluster. The full backup is the foundation on which incremental backups are applied
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to build iterative snapshots. Incremental backups can be run on a schedule to capture changes over time,
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for example by using a Cron task. Incremental backups are more cost-effective than full backups because they only capture
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the changes since the last backup and they also enable administrators to restore the database to any prior incremental backup. Furthermore, the
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utilities also enable table-level data backup-and-recovery if you do not want to restore the entire dataset
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of the backup.
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The backup and restore feature supplements the HBase Replication feature. While HBase replication is ideal for
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creating "hot" copies of the data (where the replicated data is immediately available for query), the backup and
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restore feature is ideal for creating "cold" copies of data (where a manual step must be taken to restore the system).
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Previously, users only had the ability to create full backups via the ExportSnapshot functionality. The incremental
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backup implementation is the novel improvement over the previous "art" provided by ExportSnapshot.
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[[br.terminology]]
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== Terminology
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The backup and restore feature introduces new terminology which can be used to understand how control flows through the
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system.
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* _A backup_: A logical unit of data and metadata which can restore a table to its state at a specific point in time.
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* _Full backup_: a type of backup which wholly encapsulates the contents of the table at a point in time.
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* _Incremental backup_: a type of backup which contains the changes in a table since a full backup.
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* _Backup set_: A user-defined name which references one or more tables over which a backup can be executed.
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* _Backup ID_: A unique names which identifies one backup from the rest, e.g. `backupId_1467823988425`
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[[br.planning]]
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== Planning
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There are some common strategies which can be used to implement backup and restore in your environment. The following section
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shows how these strategies are implemented and identifies potential tradeoffs with each.
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WARNING: This backup and restore tools has not been tested on Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled HDFS clusters.
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This is related to the open issue link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16178[HBASE-16178].
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[[br.intracluster.backup]]
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=== Backup within a cluster
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This strategy stores the backups on the same cluster as where the backup was taken. This approach is only appropriate for testing
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as it does not provide any additional safety on top of what the software itself already provides.
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.Intra-Cluster Backup
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image::backup-intra-cluster.png[]
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[[br.dedicated.cluster.backup]]
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=== Backup using a dedicated cluster
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This strategy provides greater fault tolerance and provides a path towards disaster recovery. In this setting, you will
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store the backup on a separate HDFS cluster by supplying the backup destination cluster’s HDFS URL to the backup utility.
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You should consider backing up to a different physical location, such as a different data center.
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Typically, a backup-dedicated HDFS cluster uses a more economical hardware profile to save money.
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.Dedicated HDFS Cluster Backup
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image::backup-dedicated-cluster.png[]
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[[br.cloud.or.vendor.backup]]
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=== Backup to the Cloud or a storage vendor appliance
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Another approach to safeguarding HBase incremental backups is to store the data on provisioned, secure servers that belong
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to third-party vendors and that are located off-site. The vendor can be a public cloud provider or a storage vendor who uses
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a Hadoop-compatible file system, such as S3 and other HDFS-compatible destinations.
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.Backup to Cloud or Vendor Storage Solutions
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image::backup-cloud-appliance.png[]
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NOTE: The HBase backup utility does not support backup to multiple destinations. A workaround is to manually create copies
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of the backup files from HDFS or S3.
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[[br.initial.setup]]
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== First-time configuration steps
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This section contains the necessary configuration changes that must be made in order to use the backup and restore feature.
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As this feature makes significant use of YARN's MapReduce framework to parallelize these I/O heavy operations, configuration
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changes extend outside of just `hbase-site.xml`.
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=== Allow the "hbase" system user in YARN
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The YARN *container-executor.cfg* configuration file must have the following property setting: _allowed.system.users=hbase_. No spaces
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are allowed in entries of this configuration file.
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WARNING: Skipping this step will result in runtime errors when executing the first backup tasks.
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*Example of a valid container-executor.cfg file for backup and restore:*
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yarn.nodemanager.log-dirs=/var/log/hadoop/mapred
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yarn.nodemanager.linux-container-executor.group=yarn
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banned.users=hdfs,yarn,mapred,bin
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allowed.system.users=hbase
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min.user.id=500
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=== HBase specific changes
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Add the following properties to hbase-site.xml and restart HBase if it is already running.
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NOTE: The ",..." is an ellipsis meant to imply that this is a comma-separated list of values, not literal text which should be added to hbase-site.xml.
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<property>
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<name>hbase.backup.enable</name>
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<value>true</value>
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</property>
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<property>
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<name>hbase.master.logcleaner.plugins</name>
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<value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.master.BackupLogCleaner,...</value>
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</property>
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<property>
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<name>hbase.procedure.master.classes</name>
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<value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.master.LogRollMasterProcedureManager,...</value>
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</property>
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<property>
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<name>hbase.procedure.regionserver.classes</name>
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<value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.regionserver.LogRollRegionServerProcedureManager,...</value>
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</property>
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<property>
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<name>hbase.coprocessor.region.classes</name>
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<value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.BackupObserver,...</value>
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</property>
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<property>
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<name>hbase.master.hfilecleaner.plugins</name>
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<value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.BackupHFileCleaner,...</value>
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== Backup and Restore commands
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This covers the command-line utilities that administrators would run to create, restore, and merge backups. Tools to
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inspect details on specific backup sessions is covered in the next section, <<br.administration,Administration of Backup Images>>.
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Run the command `hbase backup help <command>` to access the online help that provides basic information about a command
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and its options. The below information is captured in this help message for each command.
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// hbase backup create
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[[br.creating.complete.backup]]
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### Creating a Backup Image
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[NOTE]
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For HBase clusters also using Apache Phoenix: include the SQL system catalog tables in the backup. In the event that you
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need to restore the HBase backup, access to the system catalog tables enable you to resume Phoenix interoperability with the
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restored data.
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The first step in running the backup and restore utilities is to perform a full backup and to store the data in a separate image
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from the source. At a minimum, you must do this to get a baseline before you can rely on incremental backups.
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Run the following command as HBase superuser:
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hbase backup create <type> <backup_path>
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The backup ID is the Unix time (also known as Epoch time) that the HBase master received the backup request from the client.
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[TIP]
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Record the backup ID that appears at the end of a successful backup. In case the source cluster fails and you need to recover the
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dataset with a restore operation, having the backup ID readily available can save time.
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[[br.create.positional.cli.arguments]]
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#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
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[[br.create.named.cli.arguments]]
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#### Named Command-Line Arguments
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A comma-separated list of tables to back up. If no tables are specified, all tables are backed up. No regular-expression or
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information about peforming operations on collections of tables. Mutually exclusive with the _-s_ option; one of these
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#### Example usage
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#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
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A comma-separated list of tables to restore. See <<br.using.backup.sets,Backup Sets>> for more
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larger incremental backup image. This command could be used to merge hourly incremental backups
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// hbase backup set
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[[br.using.backup.sets]]
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### Using Backup Sets
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Backup sets can ease the administration of HBase data backups and restores by reducing the amount of repetitive input
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of table names. You can group tables into a named backup set with the `hbase backup set add` command. You can then use
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the -set option to invoke the name of a backup set in the `hbase backup create` or `hbase backup restore` rather than list
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individually every table in the group. You can have multiple backup sets.
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NOTE: Note the differentiation between the `hbase backup set add` command and the _-set_ option. The `hbase backup set add`
|
||||||
|
command must be run before using the `-set` option in a different command because backup sets must be named and defined
|
||||||
|
before using backup sets as a shortcut.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you run the `hbase backup set add` command and specify a backup set name that does not yet exist on your system, a new set
|
||||||
|
is created. If you run the command with the name of an existing backup set name, then the tables that you specify are added
|
||||||
|
to the set.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In this command, the backup set name is case-sensitive.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
NOTE: The metadata of backup sets are stored within HBase. If you do not have access to the original HBase cluster with the
|
||||||
|
backup set metadata, then you must specify individual table names to restore the data.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
To create a backup set, run the following command as the HBase superuser:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup set <subcommand> <backup_set_name> <tables>
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.set.subcommands]]
|
||||||
|
#### Backup Set Subcommands
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The following list details subcommands of the hbase backup set command.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
NOTE: You must enter one (and no more than one) of the following subcommands after hbase backup set to complete an operation.
|
||||||
|
Also, the backup set name is case-sensitive in the command-line utility.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_add_::
|
||||||
|
Adds table[s] to a backup set. Specify a _backup_set_name_ value after this argument to create a backup set.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_remove_::
|
||||||
|
Removes tables from the set. Specify the tables to remove in the tables argument.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_list_::
|
||||||
|
Lists all backup sets.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_describe_::
|
||||||
|
Displays a description of a backup set. The information includes whether the set has full
|
||||||
|
or incremental backups, start and end times of the backups, and a list of the tables in the set. This subcommand must precede
|
||||||
|
a valid value for the _backup_set_name_ value.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_delete_::
|
||||||
|
Deletes a backup set. Enter the value for the _backup_set_name_ option directly after the `hbase backup set delete` command.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.set.positional.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_backup_set_name_::
|
||||||
|
Use to assign or invoke a backup set name. The backup set name must contain only printable characters and cannot have any spaces.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_tables_::
|
||||||
|
List of tables (or a single table) to include in the backup set. Enter the table names as a comma-separated list. If no tables
|
||||||
|
are specified, all tables are included in the set.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
TIP: Maintain a log or other record of the case-sensitive backup set names and the corresponding tables in each set on a separate
|
||||||
|
or remote cluster, backup strategy. This information can help you in case of failure on the primary cluster.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.set.usage]]
|
||||||
|
#### Example of Usage
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup set add Q1Data TEAM3,TEAM_4
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Depending on the environment, this command results in _one_ of the following actions:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* If the `Q1Data` backup set does not exist, a backup set containing tables `TEAM_3` and `TEAM_4` is created.
|
||||||
|
* If the `Q1Data` backup set exists already, the tables `TEAM_3` and `TEAM_4` are added to the `Q1Data` backup set.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.administration]]
|
||||||
|
## Administration of Backup Images
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The `hbase backup` command has several subcommands that help with administering backup images as they accumulate. Most production
|
||||||
|
environments require recurring backups, so it is necessary to have utilities to help manage the data of the backup repository.
|
||||||
|
Some subcommands enable you to find information that can help identify backups that are relevant in a search for particular data.
|
||||||
|
You can also delete backup images.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The following list details each `hbase backup subcommand` that can help administer backups. Run the full command-subcommand line as
|
||||||
|
the HBase superuser.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
// hbase backup progress
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.managing.backup.progress]]
|
||||||
|
### Managing Backup Progress
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You can monitor a running backup in another terminal session by running the _hbase backup progress_ command and specifying the backup ID as an argument.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
For example, run the following command as hbase superuser to view the progress of a backup
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup progress <backup_id>
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.progress.positional.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_backup_id_::
|
||||||
|
Specifies the backup that you want to monitor by seeing the progress information. The backupId is case-sensitive.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.progress.named.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Named Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
None.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.progress.example]]
|
||||||
|
#### Example usage
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
hbase backup progress backupId_1467823988425
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
// hbase backup history
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.managing.backup.history]]
|
||||||
|
### Managing Backup History
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This command displays a log of backup sessions. The information for each session includes backup ID, type (full or incremental), the tables
|
||||||
|
in the backup, status, and start and end time. Specify the number of backup sessions to display with the optional -n argument.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup history <backup_id>
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.history.positional.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_backup_id_::
|
||||||
|
Specifies the backup that you want to monitor by seeing the progress information. The backupId is case-sensitive.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.history.named.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Named Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_-n <num_records>_::
|
||||||
|
(Optional) The maximum number of backup records (Default: 10).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_-p <backup_root_path>_::
|
||||||
|
The full filesystem URI of where backup images are stored.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_-s <backup_set_name>_::
|
||||||
|
The name of the backup set to obtain history for. Mutually exclusive with the _-t_ option.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_-t_ <table_name>::
|
||||||
|
The name of table to obtain history for. Mutually exclusive with the _-s_ option.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.history.backup.example]]
|
||||||
|
#### Example usage
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup history
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup history -n 20
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup history -t WebIndexRecords
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
// hbase backup describe
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.describe.backup]]
|
||||||
|
### Describing a Backup Image
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This command can be used to obtain information about a specific backup image.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup describe <backup_id>
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.describe.backup.positional.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_backup_id_::
|
||||||
|
The ID of the backup image to describe.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.describe.backup.named.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Named Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
None.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.describe.backup.example]]
|
||||||
|
#### Example usage
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup describe backupId_1467823988425
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
// hbase backup delete
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.delete.backup]]
|
||||||
|
### Deleting a Backup Image
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This command can be used to delete a backup image which is no longer needed.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup delete <backup_id>
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.delete.backup.positional.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_backup_id_::
|
||||||
|
The ID to the backup image which should be deleted.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.delete.backup.named.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Named Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
None.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.delete.backup.example]]
|
||||||
|
#### Example usage
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup delete backupId_1467823988425
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
// hbase backup repair
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.repair.backup]]
|
||||||
|
### Backup Repair Command
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This command attempts to correct any inconsistencies in persisted backup metadata which exists as
|
||||||
|
the result of software errors or unhandled failure scenarios. While the backup implementation tries
|
||||||
|
to correct all errors on its own, this tool may be necessary in the cases where the system cannot
|
||||||
|
automatically recover on its own.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup repair
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.repair.backup.positional.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
#### Positional Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
None.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.repair.backup.named.cli.arguments]]
|
||||||
|
### Named Command-Line Arguments
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
None.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.repair.backup.example]]
|
||||||
|
#### Example usage
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup repair
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.backup.configuration]]
|
||||||
|
## Configuration keys
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The backup and restore feature includes both required and optional configuration keys.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Required properties
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.backup.enable_: Controls whether or not the feature is enabled (Default: `false`). Set this value to `true`.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.master.logcleaner.plugins_: A comma-separated list of classes invoked when cleaning logs in the HBase Master. Set
|
||||||
|
this value to `org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.master.BackupLogCleaner` or append it to the current value.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.procedure.master.classes_: A comma-separated list of classes invoked with the Procedure framework in the Master. Set
|
||||||
|
this value to `org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.master.LogRollMasterProcedureManager` or append it to the current value.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.procedure.regionserver.classes_: A comma-separated list of classes invoked with the Procedure framework in the RegionServer.
|
||||||
|
Set this value to `org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.regionserver.LogRollRegionServerProcedureManager` or append it to the current value.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.coprocessor.region.classes_: A comma-separated list of RegionObservers deployed on tables. Set this value to
|
||||||
|
`org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.BackupObserver` or append it to the current value.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.master.hfilecleaner.plugins_: A comma-separated list of HFileCleaners deployed on the Master. Set this value
|
||||||
|
to `org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.BackupHFileCleaner` or append it to the current value.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Optional properties
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.backup.system.ttl_: The time-to-live in seconds of data in the `hbase:backup` tables (default: forever). This property
|
||||||
|
is only relevant prior to the creation of the `hbase:backup` table. Use the `alter` command in the HBase shell to modify the TTL
|
||||||
|
when this table already exists. See the <<br.filesystem.growth.warning,below section>> for more details on the impact of this
|
||||||
|
configuration property.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.backup.attempts.max_: The number of attempts to perform when taking hbase table snapshots (default: 10).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.backup.attempts.pause.ms_: The amount of time to wait between failed snapshot attempts in milliseconds (default: 10000).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
_hbase.backup.logroll.timeout.millis_: The amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for RegionServers to execute a WAL rolling
|
||||||
|
in the Master's procedure framework (default: 30000).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.best.practices]]
|
||||||
|
## Best Practices
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Formulate a restore strategy and test it.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Before you rely on a backup and restore strategy for your production environment, identify how backups must be performed,
|
||||||
|
and more importantly, how restores must be performed. Test the plan to ensure that it is workable.
|
||||||
|
At a minimum, store backup data from a production cluster on a different cluster or server. To further safeguard the data,
|
||||||
|
use a backup location that is at a different physical location.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you have a unrecoverable loss of data on your primary production cluster as a result of computer system issues, you may
|
||||||
|
be able to restore the data from a different cluster or server at the same site. However, a disaster that destroys the whole
|
||||||
|
site renders locally stored backups useless. Consider storing the backup data and necessary resources (both computing capacity
|
||||||
|
and operator expertise) to restore the data at a site sufficiently remote from the production site. In the case of a catastrophe
|
||||||
|
at the whole primary site (fire, earthquake, etc.), the remote backup site can be very valuable.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Secure a full backup image first.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
As a baseline, you must complete a full backup of HBase data at least once before you can rely on incremental backups. The full
|
||||||
|
backup should be stored outside of the source cluster. To ensure complete dataset recovery, you must run the restore utility
|
||||||
|
with the option to restore baseline full backup. The full backup is the foundation of your dataset. Incremental backup data
|
||||||
|
is applied on top of the full backup during the restore operation to return you to the point in time when backup was last taken.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Define and use backup sets for groups of tables that are logical subsets of the entire dataset.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You can group tables into an object called a backup set. A backup set can save time when you have a particular group of tables
|
||||||
|
that you expect to repeatedly back up or restore.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
When you create a backup set, you type table names to include in the group. The backup set includes not only groups of related
|
||||||
|
tables, but also retains the HBase backup metadata. Afterwards, you can invoke the backup set name to indicate what tables apply
|
||||||
|
to the command execution instead of entering all the table names individually.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
### Document the backup and restore strategy, and ideally log information about each backup.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Document the whole process so that the knowledge base can transfer to new administrators after employee turnover. As an extra
|
||||||
|
safety precaution, also log the calendar date, time, and other relevant details about the data of each backup. This metadata
|
||||||
|
can potentially help locate a particular dataset in case of source cluster failure or primary site disaster. Maintain duplicate
|
||||||
|
copies of all documentation: one copy at the production cluster site and another at the backup location or wherever it can be
|
||||||
|
accessed by an administrator remotely from the production cluster.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[[br.s3.backup.scenario]]
|
||||||
|
## Scenario: Safeguarding Application Datasets on Amazon S3
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This scenario describes how a hypothetical retail business uses backups to safeguard application data and then restore the dataset
|
||||||
|
after failure.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The HBase administration team uses backup sets to store data from a group of tables that have interrelated information for an
|
||||||
|
application called green. In this example, one table contains transaction records and the other contains customer details. The
|
||||||
|
two tables need to be backed up and be recoverable as a group.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The admin team also wants to ensure daily backups occur automatically.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
.Tables Composing The Backup Set
|
||||||
|
image::backup-app-components.png[]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The following is an outline of the steps and examples of commands that are used to backup the data for the _green_ application and
|
||||||
|
to recover the data later. All commands are run when logged in as HBase superuser.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
1. A backup set called _green_set_ is created as an alias for both the transactions table and the customer table. The backup set can
|
||||||
|
be used for all operations to avoid typing each table name. The backup set name is case-sensitive and should be formed with only
|
||||||
|
printable characters and without spaces.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup set add green_set transactions
|
||||||
|
$ hbase backup set add green_set customer
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
2. The first backup of green_set data must be a full backup. The following command example shows how credentials are passed to Amazon
|
||||||
|
S3 and specifies the file system with the s3a: prefix.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
$ ACCESS_KEY=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST
|
||||||
|
$ SECRET_KEY=123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCD
|
||||||
|
$ sudo -u hbase hbase backup create full\
|
||||||
|
s3a://$ACCESS_KEY:SECRET_KEY@prodhbasebackups/backups -s green_set
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
3. Incremental backups should be run according to a schedule that ensures essential data recovery in the event of a catastrophe. At
|
||||||
|
this retail company, the HBase admin team decides that automated daily backups secures the data sufficiently. The team decides that
|
||||||
|
they can implement this by modifying an existing Cron job that is defined in `/etc/crontab`. Consequently, IT modifies the Cron job
|
||||||
|
by adding the following line:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[source]
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
@daily hbase hbase backup create incremental s3a://$ACCESS_KEY:$SECRET_KEY@prodhbasebackups/backups -s green_set
|
||||||
|
----
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
4. A catastrophic IT incident disables the production cluster that the green application uses. An HBase system administrator of the
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backup cluster must restore the _green_set_ dataset to the point in time closest to the recovery objective.
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NOTE: If the administrator of the backup HBase cluster has the backup ID with relevant details in accessible records, the following
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search with the `hdfs dfs -ls` command and manually scanning the backup ID list can be bypassed. Consider continuously maintaining
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and protecting a detailed log of backup IDs outside the production cluster in your environment.
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The HBase administrator runs the following command on the directory where backups are stored to print the list of successful backup
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IDs on the console:
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`hdfs dfs -ls -t /prodhbasebackups/backups`
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admin converts the calendar timestamp of the recovery point in time to Unix time because backup IDs are uniquely identified with
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Unix time. The backup IDs are listed in reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent successful backup appears first.
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`/prodhbasebackups/backups/backup_1467823988425`
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6. The admin restores green_set invoking the backup ID and the -overwrite option. The -overwrite option truncates all existing data
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in the destination and populates the tables with data from the backup dataset. Without this flag, the backup data is appended to the
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existing data in the destination. In this case, the admin decides to overwrite the data because it is corrupted.
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[source]
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s3a://$ACCESS_KEY:$SECRET_KEY@prodhbasebackups/backups backup_1467823988425 \ -overwrite
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[[br.data.security]]
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## Security of Backup Data
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concerns that exist around data security. Like the HBase replication feature, backup and restore provides the constructs to automatically
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copy data from within a corporate boundary to some system outside of that boundary. It is imperative when storing sensitive data that with backup and restore, much
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less any feature which extracts data from HBase, the locations to which data is being sent has undergone a security audit to ensure
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that only authenticated users are allowed to access that data.
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to the S3 bucket to ensure that only a minimum set of authorized users are allowed to access this data. Because the data is no longer
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being accessed via HBase, and its authentication and authorization controls, we must ensure that the filesystem storing that data is
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providing a comparable level of security. This is a manual step which users *must* implement on their own.
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[[br.technical.details]]
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## Technical Details of Incremental Backup and Restore
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HBase incremental backups enable more efficient capture of HBase table images than previous attempts at serial backup and restore
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solutions, such as those that only used HBase Export and Import APIs. Incremental backups use Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to capture
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the data changes since the previous backup was created. A WAL roll (create new WALs) is executed across all RegionServers to track
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the WALs that need to be in the backup.
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to the DistCp (distributed copy) tool is used to move the source backup files to the target file systems. When a table restore operation
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starts, a two-step process is initiated. First, the full backup is restored from the full backup image. Second, all WAL files from
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incremental backups between the last full backup and the incremental backup being restored are converted to HFiles, which the HBase
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Bulk Load utility automatically imports as restored data in the table.
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You can only restore on a live HBase cluster because the data must be redistributed to complete the restore operation successfully.
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[[br.filesystem.growth.warning]]
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## A Warning on File System Growth
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As a reminder, incremental backups are implemented via retaining the write-ahead logs which HBase primarily uses for data durability.
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Thus, to ensure that all data needing to be included in a backup is still available in the system, the HBase backup and restore feature
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retains all write-ahead logs since the last backup until the next incremental backup is executed.
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Like HBase Snapshots, this can have an expectedly large impact on the HDFS usage of HBase for high volume tables. Take care in enabling
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and using the backup and restore feature, specifically with a mind to removing backup sessions when they are not actively being used.
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The only automated, upper-bound on retained write-ahead logs for backup and restore is based on the TTL of the `hbase:backup` system table which,
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as of the time this document is written, is infinite (backup table entries are never automatically deleted). This requires that administrators
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perform backups on a schedule whose frequency is relative to the amount of available space on HDFS (e.g. less available HDFS space requires
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more aggressive backup merges and deletions). As a reminder, the TTL can be altered on the `hbase:backup` table using the `alter` command
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in the HBase shell. Modifying the configuration property `hbase.backup.system.ttl` in hbase-site.xml after the system table exists has no effect.
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[[br.backup.capacity.planning]]
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## Capacity Planning
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When designing a distributed system deployment, it is critical that some basic mathmatical rigor is executed to ensure sufficient computational
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capacity is available given the data and software requirements of the system. For this feature, the availability of network capacity is the largest
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bottleneck when estimating the performance of some implementation of backup and restore. The second most costly function is the speed at which
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data can be read/written.
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### Full Backups
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To estimate the duration of a full backup, we have to understand the general actions which are invoked:
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* Write-ahead log roll on each RegionServer: ones to tens of seconds per RegionServer in parallel. Relative to the load on each RegionServer.
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* Take an HBase snapshot of the table(s): tens of seconds. Relative to the number of regions and files that comprise the table.
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* Export the snapshot to the destination: see below. Relative to the size of the data and the network bandwidth to the destination.
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[[br.export.snapshot.cost]]
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To approximate how long the final step will take, we have to make some assumptions on hardware. Be aware that these will *not* be accurate for your
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system -- these are numbers that your or your administrator know for your system. Let's say the speed of reading data from HDFS on a single node is
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capped at 80MB/s (across all Mappers that run on that host), a modern network interface controller (NIC) supports 10Gb/s, the top-of-rack switch can
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handle 40Gb/s, and the WAN between your clusters is 10Gb/s. This means that you can only ship data to your remote at a speed of 1.25GB/s -- meaning
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that 16 nodes (`1.25 * 1024 / 80 = 16`) participating in the ExportSnapshot should be able to fully saturate the link between clusters. With more
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|
nodes in the cluster, we can still saturate the network but at a lesser impact on any one node which helps ensure local SLAs are made. If the size
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of the snapshot is 10TB, this would full backup would take in the ballpark of 2.5 hours (`10 * 1024 / 1.25 / (60 * 60) = 2.23hrs`)
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As a general statement, it is very likely that the WAN bandwidth between your local cluster and the remote storage is the largest
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|
bottleneck to the speed of a full backup.
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When the concern is restricting the computational impact of backups to a "production system", the above formulas can be reused with the optional
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|
command-line arguments to `hbase backup create`: `-b`, `-w`, `-q`. The `-b` option defines the bandwidth at which each worker (Mapper) would
|
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|
write data. The `-w` argument limits the number of workers that would be spawned in the DistCp job. The `-q` allows the user to specify a YARN
|
||||||
|
queue which can limit the specific nodes where the workers will be spawned -- this can quarantine the backup workers performing the copy to
|
||||||
|
a set of non-critical nodes. Relating the `-b` and `-w` options to our earlier equations: `-b` would be used to restrict each node from reading
|
||||||
|
data at the full 80MB/s and `-w` is used to limit the job from spawning 16 worker tasks.
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|
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|
### Incremental Backup
|
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|
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||||||
|
Like we did for full backups, we have to understand the incremental backup process to approximate its runtime and cost.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
* Identify new write-ahead logs since last full or incremental backup: negligible. Apriori knowledge from the backup system table(s).
|
||||||
|
* Read, filter, and write "minimized" HFiles equivalent to the WALs: dominated by the speed of writing data. Relative to write speed of HDFS.
|
||||||
|
* DistCp the HFiles to the destination: <<br.export.snapshot.cost,see above>>.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
For the second step, the dominating cost of this operation would be the re-writing the data (under the assumption that a majority of the
|
||||||
|
data in the WAL is preserved). In this case, we can assume an aggregate write speed of 30MB/s per node. Continuing our 16-node cluster example,
|
||||||
|
this would require approximately 15 minutes to perform this step for 50GB of data (50 * 1024 / 60 / 60 = 14.2). The amount of time to start the
|
||||||
|
DistCp MapReduce job would likely dominate the actual time taken to copy the data (50 / 1.25 = 40 seconds) and can be ignored.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
[[br.limitations]]
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|
## Limitations of the Backup and Restore Utility
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*Serial backup operations*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Backup operations cannot be run concurrently. An operation includes actions like create, delete, restore, and merge. Only one active backup session is supported. link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16391[HBASE-16391]
|
||||||
|
will introduce multiple-backup sessions support.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*No means to cancel backups*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Both backup and restore operations cannot be canceled. (link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15997[HBASE-15997], link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15998[HBASE-15998]).
|
||||||
|
The workaround to cancel a backup would be to kill the client-side backup command (`control-C`), ensure all relevant MapReduce jobs have exited, and then
|
||||||
|
run the `hbase backup repair` command to ensure the system backup metadata is consistent.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*Backups can only be saved to a single location*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Copying backup information to multiple locations is an exercise left to the user. link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15476[HBASE-15476] will
|
||||||
|
introduce the ability to specify multiple-backup destinations intrinsically.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*HBase superuser access is required*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Only an HBase superuser (e.g. hbase) is allowed to perform backup/restore, can pose a problem for shared HBase installations. Current mitigations would require
|
||||||
|
coordination with system administrators to build and deploy a backup and restore strategy (link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14138[HBASE-14138]).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*Backup restoration is an online operation*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
To perform a restore from a backup, it requires that the HBase cluster is online as a caveat of the current implementation (link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16573[HBASE-16573]).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*Some operations may fail and require re-run*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The HBase backup feature is primarily client driven. While there is the standard HBase retry logic built into the HBase Connection, persistent errors in executing operations
|
||||||
|
may propagate back to the client (e.g. snapshot failure due to region splits). The backup implementation should be moved from client-side into the ProcedureV2 framework
|
||||||
|
in the future which would provide additional robustness around transient/retryable failures. The `hbase backup repair` command is meant to correct states which the system
|
||||||
|
cannot automatically detect and recover from.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*Avoidance of declaration of public API*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
While the Java API to interact with this feature exists and its implementation is separated from an interface, insufficient rigor has been applied to determine if
|
||||||
|
it is exactly what we intend to ship to users. As such, it is marked as for a `Private` audience with the expectation that, as users begin to try the feature, there
|
||||||
|
will be modifications that would necessitate breaking compatibility (link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17517[HBASE-17517]).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
*Lack of global metrics for backup and restore*
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Individual backup and restore operations contain metrics about the amount of work the operation included, but there is no centralized location (e.g. the Master UI)
|
||||||
|
which present information for consumption (link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16565[HBASE-16565]).
|
||||||
|
|
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||||||
include::_chapters/security.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/security.adoc[]
|
||||||
include::_chapters/architecture.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/architecture.adoc[]
|
||||||
include::_chapters/hbase_mob.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/hbase_mob.adoc[]
|
||||||
|
include::_chapters/backup_restore.adoc[]
|
||||||
include::_chapters/hbase_apis.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/hbase_apis.adoc[]
|
||||||
include::_chapters/external_apis.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/external_apis.adoc[]
|
||||||
include::_chapters/thrift_filter_language.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/thrift_filter_language.adoc[]
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
include::_chapters/orca.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/orca.adoc[]
|
||||||
include::_chapters/tracing.adoc[]
|
include::_chapters/tracing.adoc[]
|
||||||
include::_chapters/rpc.adoc[]
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