NetBackup™ for Hadoop Administrator's Guide

Configuring the NetBackup for Hadoop plug-in using the NetBackup for Hadoop configuration file

The backup hosts use the hadoop.conf file to save the configuration settings of the NetBackup for Hadoop plug-in. You need to create a separate file for each backup host and copy it to the /usr/openv/var/global/. You need to manually create the hadoop.conf file in JSON format. This file is not available by default with the installer.

With this release, the following plug-in settings can be configured:

Following is an example of the hadoop.conf file.

  {
   "application_servers":
   {
    "hostname_of_the_primary_namenode":
    {
     "failover_namenodes":
     [
      {
       "hostname":"hostname_of_failover_namenode",
       "port":port_of_the_failover_namenode
      }
     ],
     "port":port_of_the_primary_namenode
     "distro_algo": distribution_algorithm,
     "num_streams": number_of_streams
     }
    }
   },
    "number_of_threads":number_of_threads
  }