We're continuing to make backup / restore more robust. Work in progress (both are close to being integrated):
HBASE-15565 Rewrite restore with Procedure V2 HBASE-15449 Support physical table layout change Since snapshot is dependency in the full backup, backup / restore wouldn't be more robust than snapshot is. On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > right, they're separate features but when asked about "robust > backup/restore" (which is what I care about for this feature getting > merged) things were pawned off on snapshots. > > Are they independent enough that we can get backup/restore tolerant to > failures prior to merge to master? Prior to backport to branch-1? > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> > wrote: > > I agree these are separate features FWIW > > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Vladimir Rodionov < > vladrodio...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> >> Do we have JIRA issue(s) covering making snapshots robust in the face > >> >> of monkeys? > >> > >> I would like to mention that "robust snapshots" and "table > backup/restore" > >> are totally separate features, but we have separate JIRA for fault > >> tolerance (HBASE-14413). > >> > >> -Vlad > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Sean: > >> > Please see HBASE-14413 for the last question. > >> > > >> > FYI > >> > > >> > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Vladimir Rodionov > >> > > <vladrodio...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > > Not sure what do you mean, Andrew by "trying out the branch via > the > >> > IT", > >> > > > but we do not recommend running this with monkey enabled. > >> > > > It has not been tested in a such scenario yet and frankly > speaking it > >> > is > >> > > > not supposed to work (snapshots will fail anyway and we depends on > >> > > > snapshots) > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > Also won't have time to test out the branch this week, but if we're > >> > > not going to handle failures do we have tools or guidance on > >> > > recovering in the case of things falling over? > >> > > > >> > > Do we have JIRA issue(s) covering making snapshots robust in the > face > >> > > of monkeys? > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > busbey > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > - Andy > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > > (via Tom White) > > > > -- > busbey >