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Shut down destination hbase cluster (assuming it's empty cluster)
Mark current time stamp Ts
Clean destination hbase cluster hdfs files and ZK data
Distcp all hbase files from source hbase root directory to destination hbase cluster root folder
Run upgrade step 4 and 5 from the above guide
Shut down source cluster.
su hbase - -c "hbase-daemon.sh --config /etc/hbase/ stop regionserver"
Use export to dump all data from source cluster since the above marked time stamp Ts.
$ bin/hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.Export <tablename> <outputdir> [<versions> [<starttime> [<endtime>]]]
Use import to get exported tail data into the destination cluster Route traffic to destination cluster