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Elliott Clark commented on HBASE-12325:
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bq.The initial design was exporting from one hbase cluster to another,
Export to HDFS has been there for a long time now. What the initial design was
doesn't matter much. It's all about what's useful now.
bq.anyway, you are using export in a wrong way
Disagree. This is an easy way to get differential backups that are easily
importable and clean up is pretty easy. If HDFS ever gets hard links then this
can go away. But that doesn't look like it will ever happen.
So users can get differential backups right now. By
# Export all of your snapshots into the same directory on a remote HDFS.
# Keep N snapshots removing the oldest after each export.
# That's it. There are no other steps required.
bq....or, you can use the tool. but the tool requires coordination.
I'm working on a tool that doesn't require any coordination. It just removes
the files from the oldest snapshot that are not referenced any more. So as long
as the oldest snapshot is not still in transition (pretty easy if you're
keeping more than 2 snapshots). Then you can run clean up and snapshot in
parallel.
bq.in my opinion this tool doesn't belong to hbase-core
Users of HBase can benefit from a way of doing differential backups. Right now
this is the best way to do that.
> Add Utility to remove snapshot from a directory
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> Key: HBASE-12325
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12325
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Elliott Clark
> Assignee: Elliott Clark
> Attachments: DeleteRemoteSnapshotTool.java
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> If there are several snapshots exported to a single directory, it's nice to
> be able to remove the oldest one. Since snapshots in the same directory can
> share files it's not as simple as just removing all files in a snapshot.
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