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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-5547:
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For this I was actually thinking a single cluster-wide setting ("This HBase
cluster is now in backup mode"), which would affect all tables would be
sufficient.
But could do per table as well as Jesse has done and it definitely does not
need to be a custom znode, checking a value is fine.
> Don't delete HFiles when in "backup mode"
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> Key: HBASE-5547
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5547
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Assignee: Jesse Yates
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> This came up in a discussion I had with Stack.
> It would be nice if HBase could be notified that a backup is in progress (via
> a znode for example) and in that case either:
> 1. rename HFiles to be delete to <file>.bck
> 2. rename the HFiles into a special directory
> 3. rename them to a general trash directory (which would not need to be tied
> to backup mode).
> That way it should be able to get a consistent backup based on HFiles (HDFS
> snapshots or hard links would be better options here, but we do not have
> those).
> #1 makes cleanup a bit harder.
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