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Liu Shaohui commented on HBASE-10535:
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[~enis]
It's difficult to distinguish the Hfiles deleted by compaction or deleted by 
table delete in .archive directory , if using it for all deleted files.  And 
there may be extra region dir in .archive directory for region split. So it 
will make the table restore complex.

If using a separate dir trash or a namespace trash, I think it's easy to keep 
integrity of table's data and restore table.

> Table trash to recover table deleted by mistake
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-10535
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10535
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Liu Shaohui
>            Priority: Minor
>
> When table is deleted, only Hfiles are moved to archives dir, table and 
> region infos are deleted immediately. So it's very difficult to recover 
> tables which are deleted by mistakes.
> I think if we can introduce an table trash dir in HDFS. When the table is 
> deleted, the entire table dir is moved to trash dir. And after an 
> configurable ttl,  the dir is deleted actually. This can be done by HMaster.
> If we want to recover the deleted table, we can use a tool which moves table 
> dir out of trash and recovery the meta data of the table. There are many 
> problems the recover tool will encountered eg, parent  and daughter regions 
> are all in the table dir. But I think this feature is useful to handle some 
> special cases.
> Discussions are welcomed.



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