The ExportSnapshot tool copies all the data related to a snapshot (hfiles, logs, snapshot metadata) to another cluster. The tool executes a Map-Reduce job, similar to distcp, to copy files between the two clusters, and since it works at file-system level the hbase cluster does not have to be online. The HBase Snapshot Export tool must be run as hbase user. The HBase Snapshot Export tool must have temp directory, specified by "hbase.tmp.dir" (ie /grid/0/var/log/hbase), created on HDFS with hbase user as the owner.
To copy a snapshot called MySnapshot to an HBase cluster srv2 (hdfs://srv2:8020/hbase) using 16 mappers:
$ bin/hbase class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.tool.ExportSnapshot -snapshot MySnapshot -copy-to hdfs://srv2:8020/hbase -mappers 16
