Using HBase's export/import function...

2010-08-06 Thread Michael Segel
Ok, Silly question... Inside the /usr/lib/hbase/*.jar (base jar for HBase) There's an export/import tool. If you supply the #versions, and the start time and end time, you can timebox your scan so your map/reduce job will let you do daily, weekly, etc type of incremental backups. So

Re: Using HBase's export/import function...

2010-08-06 Thread Stack
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Michael Segel michael_se...@hotmail.com wrote: 2) There isn't any documentation, I'm assuming that the start time and end times are timestamps (long values representing the number of miliseconds since the epoch which are what is being stored in hbase). Yes.

RE: Using HBase's export/import function...

2010-08-06 Thread Michael Segel
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:28:57 -0700 Subject: Re: Using HBase's export/import function... From: st...@duboce.net To: user@hbase.apache.org On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Michael Segel michael_se...@hotmail.com wrote: 2) There isn't any documentation, I'm assuming that the start time