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Josh Elser commented on HBASE-19106:
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[~amitkabraiiit], would suggest you look at the hbase-dev mailing list as
there's a discussion going on around this.
There's a big question on the value and usability when intrinsically perform
validation on _every_ backup, but some teasing out of requirements to what
would be a useful addition. Please take a look and chime in as-necessary.
> Backup self validation for its correctness.
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> Key: HBASE-19106
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-19106
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: backup&restore
> Reporter: Amit Kabra
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.1.0
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> Backups are critical and if they don't work when we need them at the time of
> restore than they are not useful. We should do sanity test for each backup
> job we run that it is restorable and hence can be trusted.
> A self validation feature can be added for the same to the backups where
> whenever a backup is run , once it finishes it will trigger a validation job
> that will do a sample restoration of the backed up data and will make sure
> that it compares well with actual data.
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