Exporting and importing Hive metadata in the Metastore cluster
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Updated at March 6, 2025
Getting started
- Create a service account named
my-accountwith thestorage.uploaderandmanaged-metastore.integrationProviderroles. - Configure the network and create a Metastore cluster. When creating it, specify the
my-accountservice account. - Create a bucket named
my-bucketin Yandex Object Storage. It will store the metadata file for import and export. - Grant a
READ and WRITEpermission to themy-accountservice account for the bucket namedmy-bucket.
For more information about connecting to the bucket with configured bucket policies, see this guide.
Export data
Management console
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Go to the folder page and select Yandex MetaData Hub.
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In the left-hand panel, select the Metastore page.
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Click for the cluster you need and select Export.
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In the window that opens, specify:
- The bucket named
my-bucketthe cluster data will be exported to. - The
.sqlfile the cluster data will be written to. If a file with that name already exists, it will be overwritten.
- The bucket named
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Click Export.
Import data
Before importing, upload the .sql file with metadata into my-bucket. For information on how to prepare a file and how the import process works, see Transferring metadata between Yandex Data Processing clusters using Metastore.
To import data to a cluster:
Management console
- Go to the folder page and select Yandex MetaData Hub.
- In the left-hand panel, select the Metastore.
- Click for the cluster you need and select Import.
- In the window that opens, select the bucket named
my-bucketand the file the cluster data will be imported from. - Click Import.