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stack commented on HBASE-1867:
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Above is fine except the bit about users being prompted for instructions to
move the table aside.. .how about we just move it aside and tell user we did it
rather than do user interaction messing in script
> Tool to regenerate an hbase table from the data files
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-1867
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1867
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: util
> Affects Versions: 0.20.0
> Reporter: elsif
> Priority: Minor
>
> The purpose of this JIRA is provide a place to coordinate the development of
> a utility that will regenerate an hbase table from the data files.
> Here are some comments from stack on this subject from the hbase-user mailing
> list:
> Well, in the bin directory, there are scripts that do various things with
> the .META. (copy a table, move a table, load a table whose source is hfiles
> written by a mapreduce job; i.e. hbase-48).
> So, to 'regenerate an hbase table from the data files', you'd need to do
> something like the following:
> + delete all exisiting table references from .META.
> + move the backuped up table into position under hbase.rootdir
> + per region under hbase.rootdir, add an entry to .META. Do this by opening
> the .regioninfo file. Its content is needed to generate the rowid for
> .META. and its value becomes the info:regioninfo cell value.
> HBase does not need to be down. On next .META. scan, the newly added
> regions will be noticed. They won't have associated info:server and
> info:startcode entries so master will go ahead and assign them and you
> should be up and running.
> Code-wise, a study of copy_table.rb (this uses old api ... needs updating
> but the concepts are the same) and loadtable.rb would probably be fruitful.
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