Looking at
hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/Admin.java in
branch-1.4 :
boolean[] setSplitOrMergeEnabled(final boolean enabled, final boolean
synchronous,
final MasterSwitchType... switchTypes)
throws IOException;
boolean isSplitOrMergeEnabled(final MasterSwitchType switchType) throws
IOException;
Please also see the following script:
hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/splitormerge_switch.rb
FYI
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Vladimir Rodionov <vladrodio...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>So my question is whether taking a snapshot is supposed to work even with
> >>regions being moved around. In our case it is usually only a couple here
> >>and there.
>
> No, if region was moved, split or merged during snapshot operation -
> snapshot will fail.
> This is why taking snapshots on a large table is a 50/50 game.
>
> Disabling balancer,region merging and split before snapshot should help.
> This works in 2.0
>
> Not sure if merge/split switch is available in 1.4
>
> -Vlad
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:00 PM, Saad Mufti <saad.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are using HBase 1.4.0 on AWS EMR based Hbase. Since snapshots are in
> S3,
> > they take much longer than when using local disk. We have a cron script
> to
> > take regular snapshots as backup, and they fail quite often on our
> largest
> > table which takes close to an hour to complete the snapshot.
> >
> > The only thing I have noticed in the errors usually is a message about
> the
> > region moving or closing.
> >
> > So my question is whether taking a snapshot is supposed to work even with
> > regions being moved around. In our case it is usually only a couple here
> > and there.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ----
> > Saad
> >
>
