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
