No, u can't manually delete files from archive folder. Hbase would remove
those automatically once it doesn't need it anymore. The fact those files
are still there means those are probably still referenced by snapshots or
cloned tables.
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, 16:44 Munoz, Robert <robert.mu...@pimco.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am performing maintenance on an HBase cluster to free up storage, let's
> call this the target cluster. The tables that are in target cluster were
> exported from source cluster via export snapshot and subsequent import
> snapshot. When importing snapshot, the files were placed in archive folder.
> Is this folder now part of table space? If not, can I safely purge the
> imported snapshots on the target cluster.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Munoz
> 949-220-5169
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