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| HDFS Mirroring Extension |
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| Overview |
| Falcon supports HDFS mirroring extension to replicate data from source cluster to destination cluster. |
| This extension implements replicating arbitrary directories on HDFS and piggy backs on replication solution in Falcon which uses the DistCp tool. |
| It also allows users to replicate data from on-premise to cloud, either Azure WASB or S3. |
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| Use Case |
| * Copy directories between HDFS clusters with out dated partitions |
| * Archive directories from HDFS to Cloud. Ex: S3, Azure WASB |
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| Limitations |
| * As the data volume and number of files grow, this can get inefficient. |
