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Luke Lu commented on HADOOP-9700:
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bq. The smallest unit of distcp is file

MAPREDUCE-2257 aims to change the copy unit to block.
                
> Snapshot support for distcp
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>                 Key: HADOOP-9700
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9700
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: tools/distcp
>            Reporter: Binglin Chang
>            Assignee: Binglin Chang
>         Attachments: HADOOP-9700-demo.patch
>
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> Add snapshot incremental copy ability to distcp, so we can do iterative 
> consistent backup between hadoop clusters. 

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