This is the documentation for CDH 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Copying Data between a Secure and an Insecure Cluster using DistCp and webHDFS

You can use DistCp and webHDFS to copy data between a secure cluster and an insecure cluster by doing the following:
  1. Set ipc.client.fallback-to-simple-auth-allowed to true in core-site.xml on the secure cluster side:
    <property>
  <name>ipc.client.fallback-to-simple-auth-allowed</name>
  <value>true</value>
</property>
  2. Use commands such as the following from the secure cluster side only:
    distcp webhdfs://insecureCluster webhdfs://secureCluster
distcp webhdfs://secureCluster webhdfs://insecureCluster
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