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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-13031:
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I can see how snapshotting ranges for transfer (then local removal) can be
useful if you can't control major compaction. It will be up to the operator to
figure out how stitching together the different snapshot ranges on the remote
would work, right?
> Ability to snapshot based on a key range
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>
> Key: HBASE-13031
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13031
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: churro morales
> Assignee: churro morales
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 0.94.26, 1.1.0, 0.98.11
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>
> Posted on the mailing list and seems like some people are interested. A
> little background for everyone.
> We have a very large table, we would like to snapshot and transfer the data
> to another cluster (compressed data is always better to ship). Our problem
> lies in the fact it could take many weeks to transfer all of the data and
> during that time with major compactions, the data stored in dfs has the
> potential to double which would cause us to run out of disk space.
> So we were thinking about allowing the ability to snapshot a specific key
> range.
> Ideally I feel the approach is that the user would specify a start and stop
> key, those would be associated with a region boundary. If between the time
> the user submits the request and the snapshot is taken the boundaries change
> (due to merging or splitting of regions) the snapshot should fail.
> We would know which regions to snapshot and if those changed between when the
> request was submitted and the regions locked, the snapshot could simply fail
> and the user would try again, instead of potentially giving the user more /
> less than what they had anticipated. I was planning on storing the start /
> stop key in the SnapshotDescription and from there it looks pretty straight
> forward where we just have to change the verifier code to accommodate the key
> ranges.
> If this design sounds good to anyone, or if I am overlooking anything please
> let me know. Once we agree on the design, I'll write and submit the patches.
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