MapR 5.1 is at End of Life (EOL) and no longer supported. Please see the latest documentation. This documentation is not being updated.

5.1 Installation
This section provides information for installing with or without (manual) the MapRInstaller, installing patches, upgrading, and migrating.
- Get Started: Install MapR
  The MapR Installer makes the installation of a MapR cluster easy. It installs MapR software after it takes you through the process of selecting services and configuring the cluster.
- Installation Guide
- Upgrade Guide
  - Upgrading and your License
    After upgrading MapR, the Base License file must be manually updated on all nodes in your cluster.
  - MapR Core Upgrade Process
  - Planning the Upgrade
  - Preparing to Upgrade
    - Performing MapR Installer Pre-Upgrade Steps
  - Upgrading with the MapR Installer
  - Upgrading without the MapR Installer
  - Upgrading Clients
- Applying a Patch
  MapR patches are version-specific and cumulative. Each patch contains the code fixes that were included in the previous patch for that MapR version.
- Migration Guide

Pre-Upgrade Steps for Hive

About this task

You need to back up the metastore database in case an error occurs during the Hive upgrade. You also need to back up configuration files if you made configuration changes that you want to carry over to the next version.

Procedure

Back up the metastore database.
mysqldump -u<user> -p<passwd> <metastore_db_name> -r metastore-db-dump.sql
Copy the configuration files in /opt/mapr/hive/hive-<version>/conf/ to a location outside the MapR installation directory.
After upgrading, you can reapply changes to the updated Hive installation using the backup.