On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Enis Söztutar <e...@apache.org> wrote:
> As you guys may already be familiar, Vladimir, Ted, Jerry and others have > been developing the backup / restore functionality in a series of issues > committed in the separate branch HBASE-7912[1]. > > Backup / Restore functionality is tracked as a 4-phase project, and the > first two phases are complete and useable. We are now working on Phase 3 > items, which are mostly improvements. We think that the current code in the > branch containing all Phase 1 and Phase 2 items, and some Phase 3 items is > useable on it's own, and we do not have to wait for all the subtickets to > be finished to make it completely useable (as follow up tickets are mostly > improvements or optimizations). The improvements in the works are all > backwards compatible with the existing stuff. Thus, we would like to > propose that the branch HBASE-7912 be merged into master. The parent jira > has a design doc that goes into details about the implementation and design > choices in case you are interested[2]. > > Thanks Enis. I could read the design doc but it would be nice to have a succinct summary of what we get with phase 1 and phase 2 of this feature, especially here on this thread, and then what is coming in phase 3. Thanks, St.Ack > Most of the changes are largely non-intrusive and confined to the > backup subsystem. > The unit tests have been passing on manual runs and we (hortonworks) have > been running the integration tests as well as some other shell-based system > tests on a forked version of the code. Most of the work has been reviewed > by 1, 2 or 3 committers already (mostly Ted, myself and Jerry). > > What do you guys think? Is it time to call a vote? Any concerns or feedback > appreciated. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7912 > [2] > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12816339/HBaseBackupAndRestore%20-0.91.pdf > > Enis >
