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HBase command for Viewing Snapshots

I have created a few snapshots of my hbase tables. Is there a way to see all the snapshots created in HBASE? Something like list snapshots?

Solution

  • There are few things to be done here as the document says:

    1) Turn on the snapshot support just set the " hbase.snapshot.enabled" to true

    <property>
<name>hbase.snapshot.enabled</name>
<value>true</value>

    2)Take the snapshot

    $ ./bin/hbase shell
hbase> snapshot 'myTable', 'myTableSnapshot-122112'

    3) List all the snapshots taken:

    $ ./bin/hbase shell
hbase> list_snapshots

    *There are other functionalities too just check out this : http://hbase.apache.org/0.94/book/ops.snapshots.html