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Andrew Purtell edited comment on HBASE-10535 at 2/16/14 8:34 PM:
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Providing an option to, upon deletion command, disable the table and then move
its metadata to a namespace from which tables are automatically dropped after
some interval seems reasonable. The only wrinkle is finding somewhere to record
the original namespace name to support a restore command, and introducing that
restore command.
This would address Enis' point because there would not be any new directories
introduced at the HDFS level. The table goes into an effective inactive state
with all HFiles in place, and at some point the normal drop and HFile archival
step happens as before.
was (Author: apurtell):
Providing an option to, upon deletion command, disable the table and then move
its metadata to a namespace from which tables are automatically dropped after
some interval seems reasonable. The only wrinkle is finding somewhere to record
the original namespace name to support a restore command, and introducing that
restore command.
> Table trash to recover table deleted by mistake
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> 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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