这是我使用的完全证明方法。希望它能帮助别人。
1） 启动hbase shell命令

hbase shell

2） 使用以下命令查询现有表元数据

hbase> describe ‘existing_table’;

输出类似于：

{NAME => 'cf1', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '1', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING 
=> 'NONE', TTL => 'FOREVER', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOCKCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION
_SCOPE => '0'}                                                                                                                  
{NAME => 'cf2', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '1', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING 
=> 'NONE', TTL => 'FOREVER', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOCKCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION
_SCOPE => '0'}

3） 将此输出复制到记事本并执行以下更改：

a) Replace  TTL => 'FOREVER' with TTL => org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants::FOREVER
  b) Put an additional comma (,) between each column family description to connect column family definition.
  c) Remove newline characters (\n, \r) for the text; such that the content become one line text.

4） 最后使用新表名运行create查询：

create ‘copy_of_exsting_table_schema’, {NAME => 'cf1', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '1', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING 
=> 'NONE', TTL => org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants::FOREVER, COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOCKCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION
_SCOPE => '0'} ,{NAME => 'cf2', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '1', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING 
=> 'NONE', TTL => org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants::FOREVER, COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOCKCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION
_SCOPE => '0'}

你就完了。新表架构与现有表完全相同。

您可以使用快照功能来执行此操作。这样地；

hbase> snapshot 'tableName', 'tableSnapshot'
hbase> clone_snapshot 'tableSnapshot', 'newTableName'
hbase> delete_snapshot 'tableSnapshot'
hbase> truncate 'newTableName'

我希望你的table不是很大。你不能用空值复制列限定符，如果我没有理解错，你的问题是这个意思。可以将所有数据复制到新表中，也可以仅复制具有列族、协处理器的表结构。。等。