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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-4071:
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TTLs were introduced to conveniently expire transient data and garbage collect
it. Setting a TTL on a column family defines that column family as transient.
Whatever changes are contemplated to be "hard coded", this use case must be
maintained. I want to be able to set a TTL and versions to 1 or 3 or 10 or
whatever and have ALL of the versions discarded when their timestamps indicate
expiry.
> Data GC: Remove all versions > TTL EXCEPT the last written version
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> Key: HBASE-4071
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4071
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: stack
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> We were chatting today about our backup cluster. What we want is to be able
> to restore the dataset from any point of time but only within a limited
> timeframe -- say one week. Thereafter, if the versions are older than one
> week, rather than as we do with TTL where we let go of all versions older
> than TTL, instead, let go of all versions EXCEPT the last one written. So,
> its like versions==1 when TTL > one week. We want to allow that if an error
> is caught within a week of its happening -- user mistakenly removes a
> critical table -- then we'll be able to restore up the the moment just before
> catastrophe hit otherwise, we keep one version only.
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