Planning a backup-and-restore Strategy for your environment

There are a few strategies that you can use to implement backup-and-restore in your environment. They are Backup within a cluster, Backup to the dedicated HDFS archive cluster and Backup to the cloud or a storage vendor.

There are a few strategies you can use to implement backup-and-restore in your environment. The following sections show how they are implemented and identify potential tradeoffs.

	Note
	HBase backup-and restore tools are currently not supported on Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-enabled HDFS clusters. This is related to the Apache HBASE-16178 known issue.