I'm experimenting with the export utility to create incremental backups. (using HBase 0.90.0 which is a little dated but I've used it for full backups successfully). I run it from the master node (there are 8 region servers)
Here's the command I used, hadoop jar /usr/local/hbase-0.90.0/hbase-0.90.0.jar export <table-name> /path/to/backup/dir 1 1330664037764 Here the last argument is the start timestamp. This job gets 0 records as input to the mappers, which is unexpected because there is data belonging to the specified time range in the specified table (I can see it using a scan from Java code). Is there something (additional arguments etc) that I'm missing here? Thanks!
