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Exporting Data

The export operation copies all data from a given lakeFS commit to a designated object store location.

For instance, the contents lakefs://example/main might be exported on s3://company-bucket/example/latest. Clients entirely unaware of lakeFS could use that base URL to access latest files on main. Clients aware of lakeFS can continue to use the lakeFS S3 endpoint to access repository files on s3://example/main, as well as other versions and uncommitted versions.

Possible use-cases:

  1. External consumers of data don’t have access to your lakeFS installation.
  2. Some data pipelines in the organization are not fully migrated to lakeFS.
  3. You want to experiment with lakeFS as a side-by-side installation first.
  4. Create copies of your data lake in other regions (taking into account read pricing).

Table of contents

  1. Exporting Data With Spark
  2. Success/Failure Indications
  3. Export Rounds (Spark success files)
  4. Example
  5. Exporting Data with Docker

Exporting Data With Spark

Using spark-submit

You can use the export main in three different modes:

  1. Export all the objects from branch example-branch on example-repo repository to S3 location s3://example-bucket/prefix/:

    .... example-repo s3://example-bucket/prefix/ --branch=example-branch

  2. Export all the objects from a commit c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8 on example-repo repository to S3 location s3://example-bucket/prefix/:

    .... example-repo s3://example-bucket/prefix/ --commit_id=c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8

  3. Export only the diff between branch example-branch and commit c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8 on example-repo repository to S3 location s3://example-bucket/prefix/:

    .... example-repo s3://example-bucket/prefix/ --branch=example-branch --prev_commit_id=c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8

The complete spark-submit command would look as follows:

spark-submit --conf spark.hadoop.lakefs.api.url=https://<LAKEFS_ENDPOINT>/api/v1 \
  --conf spark.hadoop.lakefs.api.access_key=<LAKEFS_ACCESS_KEY_ID> \
  --conf spark.hadoop.lakefs.api.secret_key=<LAKEFS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY> \
  --packages io.lakefs:lakefs-spark-client_2.12:0.11.0 \
  --class io.treeverse.clients.Main export-app example-repo s3://example-bucket/prefix \
  --branch=example-branch

The command assumes that the Spark cluster has permissions to write to s3://example-bucket/prefix. Otherwise, add spark.hadoop.fs.s3a.access.key and spark.hadoop.fs.s3a.secret.key with the proper credentials.

Networking

Spark export communicates with the lakeFS server. Very large repositories may require increasing a read timeout. If you run into timeout errors during communication from the Spark job to lakeFS consider increasing these timeouts:

  • Add -c spark.hadoop.lakefs.api.read.timeout_seconds=TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS (default 10) to allow lakeFS more time to respond to requests.
  • Add -c spark.hadoop.lakefs.api.connection.timeout_seconds=TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS (default 10) to wait longer for lakeFS to accept connections.

Using custom code (Notebook/Spark)

Set up lakeFS Spark metadata client with the endpoint and credentials as instructed in the previous page.

The client exposes the Exporter object with three export options:

  1. Export all the objects at the HEAD of a given branch. Does not include files that were added to that branch but were not committed.
exportAllFromBranch(branch: String)
  1. Export ALL objects from a commit:
exportAllFromCommit(commitID: String)

  1. Export just the diff between a commit and the HEAD of a branch. This is an ideal option for continuous exports of a branch since it will change only the files that have been changed since the previous commit.

    exportFrom(branch: String, prevCommitID: String)

Success/Failure Indications

When the Spark export operation ends, an additional status file will be added to the root object storage destination. If all files were exported successfully, the file path will be of the form: EXPORT_<commitID>_<ISO-8601-time-UTC>_SUCCESS. For failures: the form will beEXPORT_<commitID>_<ISO-8601-time-UTC>_FAILURE, and the file will include a log of the failed files operations.

Export Rounds (Spark success files)

Some files should be exported before others, e.g., a Spark _SUCCESS file exported before other files under the same prefix might send the wrong indication.

The export operation may contain several rounds within the same export. A failing round will stop the export of all the files of the next rounds.

By default, lakeFS will use the SparkFilter and have 2 rounds for each export. The first round will export any non-Spark _SUCCESS files. Second round will export all Spark’s _SUCCESS files. You may override the default behavior by passing a custom filter to the Exporter.

Example

  1. First configure the Exporter instance:

    import io.treeverse.clients.{ApiClient, Exporter}
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession

val endpoint = "http://<LAKEFS_ENDPOINT>/api/v1"
val accessKey = "<LAKEFS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>"
val secretKey = "<LAKEFS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>"

val repo = "example-repo"

val spark = SparkSession.builder().appName("I can export").master("local").getOrCreate()
val sc = spark.sparkContext
sc.hadoopConfiguration.set("lakefs.api.url", endpoint)
sc.hadoopConfiguration.set("lakefs.api.access_key", accessKey)
sc.hadoopConfiguration.set("lakefs.api.secret_key", secretKey)

// Add any required spark context configuration for s3
val rootLocation = "s3://company-bucket/example/latest"

val apiClient = new ApiClient(endpoint, accessKey, secretKey)
val exporter = new Exporter(spark, apiClient, repo, rootLocation)

  2. Now you can export all objects from main branch to s3://company-bucket/example/latest:

    val branch = "main"
exporter.exportAllFromBranch(branch)

  3. Assuming a previous successful export on commit f3c450d8cd0e84ac67e7bc1c5dcde9bef82d8ba7, you can alternatively export just the difference between main branch and the commit:

    val branch = "main"
val commit = "f3c450d8cd0e84ac67e7bc1c5dcde9bef82d8ba7"
exporter.exportFrom(branch, commit)

Exporting Data with Docker

This option is recommended if you don’t have Spark at your tool-set. It doesn’t support distribution across machines, therefore may have a lower performance. Using this method, you can export data from lakeFS to S3 using the export options (in a similar way to the Spark export):

  1. Export all objects from a branch example-branch on example-repo repository to S3 location s3://destination-bucket/prefix/:

    .... example-repo s3://destination-bucket/prefix/ --branch="example-branch"

  2. Export all objects from a commit c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8 on example-repo repository to S3 location s3://destination-bucket/prefix/:

    .... example-repo s3://destination-bucket/prefix/ --commit_id=c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8

  3. Export only the diff between branch example-branch and commit c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8 on example-repo repository to S3 location s3://destination-bucket/prefix/:

    .... example-repo s3://destination-bucket/prefix/ --branch="example-branch" --prev_commit_id=c805e49bafb841a0875f49cd555b397340bbd9b8

You will need to add the relevant environment variables. The complete docker run command would look like:

docker run \
    -e LAKEFS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX -e LAKEFS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YYY \
   -e LAKEFS_ENDPOINT=https://<LAKEFS_ENDPOINT>/ \
   -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YYY \
   treeverse/lakefs-rclone-export:latest \
      example-repo \
      s3://destination-bucket/prefix/ \
      --branch="example-branch"

Note: This feature uses rclone, and specifically rclone sync. This can change the destination path, therefore the s3 destination location must be designated to lakeFS export.