On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Stuti Awasthi <stutiawas...@hcl.com> wrote: > Hi St. Ack , Ben > > I also have a scenario that in my case I have to take periodical backup of > Hbase data. For that I have will be using export/import tool. I have decided > to take backup based on time range interval. I have read it in some other > posts also that it is not good idea for one to use timestamp field of Hbase.
What you are doing sounds fine to me. Which posts say it bad so I can see what issues in particular they are referring to. Thanks, St.Ack