Issue 15701

Turn on Snapshots in HBase

15701
Reporter: omeyn
Type: Task
Summary: Turn on Snapshots in HBase
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-05-26 13:37:20.871
Updated: 2016-02-15 13:45:36.46
        
Description: Will make backups much less painful (no more m/r over region servers). Add this to hbase config:


    hbase.snapshot.enabled
    true
  

And restart Hbase. See also http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots]]>