How to copy data from one HDFS to another HDFS?

Question

I have two HDFS setup and want to copy (not migrate or move) some tables from HDFS1 to HDFS2. How to copy data from one HDFS to another HDFS? Is it possible via Sqoop or other c

Answer 1

It's also useful to note that you can run the underlying MapReduce jobs with either the source or target cluster like so:

hadoop --config /path/to/hadoop/config distcp