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Posted to user@hbase.apache.org by Stanley Xu <we...@gmail.com> on 2011/05/05 17:47:04 UTC

Is there any way I could force recover a HBase table that has missing blocks.

Sorry, missing type the title. Should be "Is there any way I could force
recover a HBase table that has missing blocks."
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Stanley Xu <we...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We were doing some network migration on our system and made some mistakes
> in the operation. So for some of our hbase data, we have some block missed,
> like the following by a fsck command output(in the end part of the mail). I
> am wondering if we could just ignore the missing blocks(let's say we just
> lost part of the data) but still keep the whole table available? Because our
> backup didn't cover all the data in the hbase table. If we could ignore the
> missing blocks, and do an overwrite with the backup data, the data we lost
> is trivial.
>
> If we have to drop the table and recover from the file backup, we might
> lose some of the column family that we didn't back up in our backup storage
> system. Thanks in advance.
>
> Status: CORRUPT
>  Total size: 27674055256 B
>  Total dirs: 1777
>  Total files: 3094
>  Total blocks (validated): 3170 (avg. block size 8729985 B)
>   ********************************
>   CORRUPT FILES: 22
>   MISSING BLOCKS: 22
>   MISSING SIZE: 176158662 B
>   CORRUPT BLOCKS: 22
>   ********************************
>  Minimally replicated blocks: 3148 (99.30599 %)
>  Over-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
>  Under-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
>  Mis-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
>  Default replication factor: 3
>  Average block replication: 2.9681387
>  Corrupt blocks: 22
>  Missing replicas: 0 (0.0 %)
>  Number of data-nodes: 37
>  Number of racks: 1
>
>
> The filesystem under path '/hbase/URLTag' is CORRUPT
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Stanley Xu
>
>

Re: Is there any way I could force recover a HBase table that has missing blocks.

Posted by Stanley Xu <we...@gmail.com>.
Thanks J-D. Seems the only way is running a fsck -delete.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>wrote:

> If you can't find the missing blocks you'll have to delete the corrupted
> files.
>
> J-D
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Stanley Xu <we...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, missing type the title. Should be "Is there any way I could force
> > recover a HBase table that has missing blocks."
> > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Stanley Xu <we...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> We were doing some network migration on our system and made some
> mistakes
> >> in the operation. So for some of our hbase data, we have some block
> missed,
> >> like the following by a fsck command output(in the end part of the
> mail). I
> >> am wondering if we could just ignore the missing blocks(let's say we
> just
> >> lost part of the data) but still keep the whole table available? Because
> our
> >> backup didn't cover all the data in the hbase table. If we could ignore
> the
> >> missing blocks, and do an overwrite with the backup data, the data we
> lost
> >> is trivial.
> >>
> >> If we have to drop the table and recover from the file backup, we might
> >> lose some of the column family that we didn't back up in our backup
> storage
> >> system. Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Status: CORRUPT
> >>  Total size: 27674055256 B
> >>  Total dirs: 1777
> >>  Total files: 3094
> >>  Total blocks (validated): 3170 (avg. block size 8729985 B)
> >>   ********************************
> >>   CORRUPT FILES: 22
> >>   MISSING BLOCKS: 22
> >>   MISSING SIZE: 176158662 B
> >>   CORRUPT BLOCKS: 22
> >>   ********************************
> >>  Minimally replicated blocks: 3148 (99.30599 %)
> >>  Over-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
> >>  Under-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
> >>  Mis-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
> >>  Default replication factor: 3
> >>  Average block replication: 2.9681387
> >>  Corrupt blocks: 22
> >>  Missing replicas: 0 (0.0 %)
> >>  Number of data-nodes: 37
> >>  Number of racks: 1
> >>
> >>
> >> The filesystem under path '/hbase/URLTag' is CORRUPT
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Stanley Xu
> >>
> >>
> >
>

Re: Is there any way I could force recover a HBase table that has missing blocks.

Posted by Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>.
If you can't find the missing blocks you'll have to delete the corrupted files.

J-D

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Stanley Xu <we...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, missing type the title. Should be "Is there any way I could force
> recover a HBase table that has missing blocks."
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Stanley Xu <we...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We were doing some network migration on our system and made some mistakes
>> in the operation. So for some of our hbase data, we have some block missed,
>> like the following by a fsck command output(in the end part of the mail). I
>> am wondering if we could just ignore the missing blocks(let's say we just
>> lost part of the data) but still keep the whole table available? Because our
>> backup didn't cover all the data in the hbase table. If we could ignore the
>> missing blocks, and do an overwrite with the backup data, the data we lost
>> is trivial.
>>
>> If we have to drop the table and recover from the file backup, we might
>> lose some of the column family that we didn't back up in our backup storage
>> system. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Status: CORRUPT
>>  Total size: 27674055256 B
>>  Total dirs: 1777
>>  Total files: 3094
>>  Total blocks (validated): 3170 (avg. block size 8729985 B)
>>   ********************************
>>   CORRUPT FILES: 22
>>   MISSING BLOCKS: 22
>>   MISSING SIZE: 176158662 B
>>   CORRUPT BLOCKS: 22
>>   ********************************
>>  Minimally replicated blocks: 3148 (99.30599 %)
>>  Over-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
>>  Under-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
>>  Mis-replicated blocks: 0 (0.0 %)
>>  Default replication factor: 3
>>  Average block replication: 2.9681387
>>  Corrupt blocks: 22
>>  Missing replicas: 0 (0.0 %)
>>  Number of data-nodes: 37
>>  Number of racks: 1
>>
>>
>> The filesystem under path '/hbase/URLTag' is CORRUPT
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Stanley Xu
>>
>>
>