Best Practices

Enterprise

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The HDFS Plugin benefits from a simple operating model:

• Use one backup job per HDFS base snapshot directory when possible.

• Keep the number of concurrent jobs aligned with the size of the Hadoop cluster and the available network bandwidth.

• Prefer snapshot retention policies that match the operational recovery window instead of keeping every snapshot indefinitely.

• Test include and exclude filters before applying them broadly to large namespace trees.

• Use local restore only when you need to extract data from HDFS into a filesystem mounted on the File Daemon host.

See also

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