Perform a Backup of the HDFS Metadata
You can back up HDFS metadata without affecting the availability of NameNode.
- Make sure the Standby NameNode checkpoints the namespace to
fsimage_
once per hour. -
Deploy monitoring on both NameNodes to confirm that checkpoints are triggering
regularly.
This helps reduce the amount of missing transactions in the event that you need to restore from a backup containing only
fsimage
files without subsequent edit logs. It is good practice to monitor this because edit logs that are large in size and without checkpoints can cause long delays after a NameNode restart while it replays those transactions. -
Back up the most recent “
fsimage_
*” and “fsimage_*.md5
” from the standby NameNode periodically.Try to keep the latest version of the file on another machine in the cluster. -
Back up the
VERSION
file from the standby NameNode.