You can take a snapshot of a table regardless of whether it is enabled or disabled. The snapshot operation doesn't involve any data copying.
$ ./bin/hbase shell
hbase> snapshot 'myTable', 'myTableSnapshot-122112'
You can take a snapshot of a table regardless of whether it is enabled or disabled. The snapshot operation doesn't involve any data copying.
$ ./bin/hbase shell
hbase> snapshot 'myTable', 'myTableSnapshot-122112'
