Backing Up HBase Service Data

Scenario

To ensure HBase service data security routinely or before a major operation on HBase (such as upgrade or migration), you need to back up HBase service data. The backup data can be used to recover the system if an exception occurs or the operation has not achieved the expected result, minimizing the adverse impacts on services.

You can create a backup task on FusionInsight Manager to back up HBase service data. Both automatic and manual backup tasks are supported.

The following situations may occur during the HBase service data backup:

• When a user creates an HBase table, KEEP_DELETED_CELLS is set to false by default. When the user backs up this HBase table, deleted data will be backed up and junk data may exist after data restoration. This parameter can be set to true manually when an HBase table is created based on service requirements.
• When a user manually specifies the timestamp when writing data into an HBase table and the specified time is earlier than the last backup time of the HBase table, new data may not be backed up in incremental backup tasks.
• The HBase backup function cannot back up the access control lists (ACLs) for reading, writing, executing, creating, and managing HBase global or namespaces. After HBase data is restored, you need to reset the role permissions on FusionInsight Manager.
• If the backup data of the standby cluster is lost in an existing HBase backup task, the next incremental backup will fail, and you need to create an HBase backup task again. However, the next full backup task will be normal.

Prerequisites

• If data needs to be backed up to the remote HDFS, you have prepared a standby cluster for data backup. The authentication mode of the standby cluster is the same as that of the active cluster. For other backup modes, you do not need to prepare the standby cluster.

• If the active cluster is deployed in security mode and the active and standby clusters are not managed by the same FusionInsight Manager, mutual trust has been configured. For details, see Configuring Cross-Manager Mutual Trust Between Clusters. If the active cluster is deployed in normal mode, no mutual trust is required.
• Cross-cluster replication has been configured for the active and standby clusters. For details, see Enabling Cross-Cluster Replication.
• Time is consistent between the active and standby clusters and the NTP services on the active and standby clusters use the same time source.
• Backup policies, including the backup task type, period, backup object, backup directory, and Yarn queue required by the backup task are planned based on service requirements.
• The HDFS in the standby cluster has sufficient space. You are advised to save backup files in a custom directory.
• On the HDFS client, you have executed the hdfs lsSnapshottableDir command as user hdfs to check the list of directories for which HDFS snapshots have been created in the current cluster and ensured that the HDFS parent directory or subdirectory where data files to be backed up are stored does not have HDFS snapshots. Otherwise, the backup task cannot be created.
• If you want to back up data to NAS, you have deployed the NAS server in advance.
• The fs.defaultFS parameter settings of HBase are the same as those of Yarn and HDFS.

Procedure

1. On FusionInsight Manager, choose O&M > Backup and Restoration > Backup Management.
2. Click Create.
3. Set Name to the name of the backup task.
4. Select the cluster to be operated from Backup Object.
5. Set Mode to the type of the backup task.

   Periodic indicates that the backup task is executed by the system periodically. Manual indicates that the backup task is executed manually.

   Table 1 Periodic backup parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Started	Indicates the time when the task is started for the first time.
   Period	Indicates the task execution interval. The options include Hours and Days.
   Backup Policy	Full backup at the first time and incremental backup subsequently Full backup every time Full backup once every n times NOTE: Incremental backup is not supported when Manager data and component metadata are backed up. Only Full backup every time is supported. If Path Type is set to NFS or CIFS, incremental backup cannot be used. When incremental backup is used for NFS or CIFS backup, the latest full backup data is updated each time the incremental backup is performed. Therefore, no new recovery point is generated.

6. In Configuration, choose HBase > HBase under Service data.
7. Set Path Type of HBase to a backup directory type.

   The following backup directory types are supported:

   • RemoteHDFS: indicates that the backup files are stored in the HDFS directory of the standby cluster.
     If you select this option, set the following parameters:

     • Destination NameService Name: indicates the NameService name of the standby cluster. You can set it to the NameService name (haclusterX, haclusterX1, haclusterX2, haclusterX3, or haclusterX4) of the built-in remote cluster of the cluster, or the NameService name of a configured remote cluster.

     • IP Mode: indicates the mode of the target IP address. The system automatically selects the IP address mode based on the cluster network type, for example, IPv4 or IPv6.
     • Target NameNode IP Address: indicates the IP address of the NameNode service plane in the standby cluster. It can be of an active or standby node.
     • Target Path: indicates the HDFS directory for storing standby cluster backup data. The storage path cannot be an HDFS hidden directory, such as a snapshot or recycle bin directory, or a default system directory, such as /hbase or /user/hbase/backup.
     • Maximum Number of Backup Copies: indicates the number of backup file sets that can be retained in the backup directory.
     • Queue Name: indicates the name of the Yarn queue used for backup task execution. The name must be the same as the name of the queue that is running properly in the cluster.
     • Maximum Number of Maps: indicates the maximum number of maps in a MapReduce task. The default value is 20.
     • Maximum Bandwidth of a Map (MB/s): indicates the maximum bandwidth of a map. The default value is 100.
   • NFS: indicates that backup files are stored in the NAS using the NFS protocol.
     If you select this option, set the following parameters:

     • IP Mode: indicates the mode of the target IP address. The system automatically selects the IP address mode based on the cluster network type, for example, IPv4 or IPv6.

     • Server IP Address: indicates the IP address of the NAS server.
     • Server Shared Path: indicates the configured shared directory of the NAS server. (The shared path of the server cannot be set to the root directory, and the user group and owner group of the shared path must be nobody:nobody.)
     • Maximum Number of Backup Copies: indicates the number of backup file sets that can be retained in the backup directory.
     • Queue Name: indicates the name of the Yarn queue used for backup task execution. The name must be the same as the name of the queue that is running properly in the cluster.
     • Maximum Number of Maps: indicates the maximum number of maps in a MapReduce task. The default value is 20.
     • Maximum Bandwidth of a Map (MB/s): indicates the maximum bandwidth of a map. The default value is 100.
   • CIFS: indicates that backup files are stored in the NAS using the CIFS protocol.
     If you select this option, set the following parameters:

     • IP Mode: indicates the mode of the target IP address. The system automatically selects the IP address mode based on the cluster network type, for example, IPv4 or IPv6.

     • Server IP Address: indicates the IP address of the NAS server.
     • Port: indicates the port number used to connect to the NAS server over the CIFS protocol. The default value is 445.
     • Username: indicates the username set when the CIFS protocol is configured.
     • Password: indicates the password set when the CIFS protocol is configured.
     • Server Shared Path: indicates the configured shared directory of the NAS server. (The shared path of the server cannot be set to the root directory, and the user group and owner group of the shared path must be nobody:nobody.)
     • Maximum Number of Backup Copies: indicates the number of backup file sets that can be retained in the backup directory.
     • Queue Name: indicates the name of the Yarn queue used for backup task execution. The name must be the same as the name of the queue that is running properly in the cluster.
     • Maximum Number of Maps: indicates the maximum number of maps in a MapReduce task. The default value is 20.
     • Maximum Bandwidth of a Map (MB/s): indicates the maximum bandwidth of a map. The default value is 100.
   • SFTP: indicates that backup files are stored in the server using the SFTP protocol.

     If you select this option, set the following parameters:

     • IP Mode: indicates the mode of the target IP address. The system automatically selects the IP address mode based on the cluster network type, for example, IPv4 or IPv6.
     • Server IP Address: indicates the IP address of the server where the backup data is stored.
     • Port: indicates the port number used to connect to the backup server over the SFTP protocol. The default value is 22.
     • Username: indicates the username for connecting to the server using the SFTP protocol.
     • Password: indicates the password for connecting to the server using the SFTP protocol.
     • Server Shared Path: indicates the backup path on the SFTP server.
     • Maximum Number of Backup Copies: indicates the number of backup file sets that can be retained in the backup directory.
     • Queue Name: indicates the name of the Yarn queue used for backup task execution. The name must be the same as the name of the queue that is running properly in the cluster.
     • Maximum Number of Maps: indicates the maximum number of maps in a MapReduce task. The default value is 20.
     • Maximum Bandwidth of a Map (MB/s): indicates the maximum bandwidth of a map. The default value is 100.

8. Set Maximum Number of Recovery Points to the number of snapshots that can be retained in the cluster.
9. Set Backup Content to one or multiple HBase tables to be backed up.

   You can select backup data using either of the following methods:

   • Adding a backup data file

     Click the name of a database in the navigation tree to show all the tables in the database, and select specified tables.

     MRS 3.2.0 or later:

     1. Click Add.
     2. Select the table to be backed up under File Directory, and click Add to add the table to Backup Content.
     3. Click OK.
   • Selecting using regular expressions
     1. Click Query Regular Expression.
     2. Enter the namespace where the HBase tables are located in the first text box as prompted. The namespace must be the same as the existing namespace, for example, default.
     3. Enter a regular expression in the second text box. Standard regular expressions are supported. For example, to get all tables in the namespace, enter ([\s\S]*?). To get tables whose names consist of letters and digits, for example, tb1, enter tb\d*.
     4. Click Refresh to view the displayed tables in Directory Name.
     5. Click Synchronize to save the result.
     

     • When entering regular expressions, click or to add or delete an expression.
     • If the selected table or directory is incorrect, click Clear Selected Node to deselect it.

10. Click Verify to check whether the backup task is configured correctly.

    The possible causes of the verification failure are as follows:

    • The target NameNode IP address is incorrect.
    • The queue name is incorrect.
    • The parent directory or subdirectory of the HDFS directory where HBase table data files to be backed up are stored has HDFS snapshots.
    • The directory or table to be backed up does not exist.

11. Click OK.
12. In the Operation column of the created task in the backup task list, click More and select Back Up Now to execute the backup task.

    After the backup task is executed, the system automatically creates a subdirectory for each backup task in the backup directory. The format of the subdirectory name is Backup task name_Data source_Task creation time, and the subdirectory is used to save latest data source backup files. All the backup file sets are stored in the related snapshot directories.