diff --git a/harvester/harvester-core/src/main/java/dk/netarkivet/viewerproxy/webinterface/Reporting.java b/harvester/harvester-core/src/main/java/dk/netarkivet/viewerproxy/webinterface/Reporting.java
index 6601e575b8..8be8fdad99 100644
--- a/harvester/harvester-core/src/main/java/dk/netarkivet/viewerproxy/webinterface/Reporting.java
+++ b/harvester/harvester-core/src/main/java/dk/netarkivet/viewerproxy/webinterface/Reporting.java
@@ -170,6 +170,29 @@ public static List<CDXRecord> getMetadataCDXRecordsForJob(long jobid) {
         }
     }
 
+    private static File getCDXCache(long jobid) {
+        String cacheDir = "metadata_cache";
+        String cdxcache = "cdxcache";
+        File cacheFile = new File(new File(new File(cacheDir), cdxcache), "" + jobid);
+        cacheFile.mkdirs();
+        return cacheFile;
+    }
+
+    private static List<CDXRecord> getCachedCDX(long jobid) {
+        List<String> cdxLines;
+        File cacheFile = getCDXCache(jobid);
+        if (cacheFile.exists()) {
+            try {
+                cdxLines = org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.readLines(cacheFile);
+                return HadoopJobUtils.getCDXRecordListFromCDXLines(cdxLines);
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        } else {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Submits a Hadoop job to generate cdx for all metadata files for a jobID and returns the resulting list of records.
      *
@@ -177,28 +200,35 @@ public static List<CDXRecord> getMetadataCDXRecordsForJob(long jobid) {
      * @return A list of CDX records.
      */
     private static List<CDXRecord> getRecordsUsingHadoop(long jobid) {
-        Configuration hadoopConf = HadoopJobUtils.getConf();
-        String metadataFileSearchPattern = getMetadataFilePatternForJobId(jobid);
 
-        try (FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystem.newInstance(hadoopConf)) {
-            HadoopJobStrategy jobStrategy = new MetadataCDXExtractionStrategy(jobid, fileSystem);
-            HadoopJob job = new HadoopJob(jobid, jobStrategy);
-            job.processOnlyFilesMatching(metadataFileSearchPattern);
-            job.prepareJobInputOutput(fileSystem);
-            job.run();
+       List<CDXRecord> cdxRecords = getCachedCDX(jobid);
+       if (cdxRecords != null) {
+           return cdxRecords;
+       } else {
+           File cacheFile = getCDXCache(jobid);
+           Configuration hadoopConf = HadoopJobUtils.getConf();
+           String metadataFileSearchPattern = getMetadataFilePatternForJobId(jobid);
 
-            List<String> cdxLines;
-            try {
-                cdxLines = HadoopJobUtils.collectOutputLines(fileSystem, job.getJobOutputDir());
-            } catch (IOException e) {
-                log.error("Failed getting CDX lines output for Hadoop job with ID: {}", jobid);
-                throw new IOFailure("Failed getting " + job.getJobType() + " job results");
-            }
-            return HadoopJobUtils.getCDXRecordListFromCDXLines(cdxLines);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            log.error("Error instantiating Hadoop filesystem for job {}.", jobid, e);
-            throw new IOFailure("Failed instantiating Hadoop filesystem.");
-        }
+           try (FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystem.newInstance(hadoopConf)) {
+               HadoopJobStrategy jobStrategy = new MetadataCDXExtractionStrategy(jobid, fileSystem);
+               HadoopJob job = new HadoopJob(jobid, jobStrategy);
+               job.processOnlyFilesMatching(metadataFileSearchPattern);
+               job.prepareJobInputOutput(fileSystem);
+               job.run();
+
+               try {
+                   List<String> cdxLines = HadoopJobUtils.collectOutputLines(fileSystem, job.getJobOutputDir());
+                   org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeLines(cacheFile, cdxLines);
+               } catch (IOException e) {
+                   log.error("Failed getting CDX lines output for Hadoop job with ID: {}", jobid);
+                   throw new IOFailure("Failed getting " + job.getJobType() + " job results");
+               }
+               return getCachedCDX(jobid);
+           } catch (IOException e) {
+               log.error("Error instantiating Hadoop filesystem for job {}.", jobid, e);
+               throw new IOFailure("Failed instantiating Hadoop filesystem.");
+           }
+       }
     }
 
     /**