Configuring and Enabling Snapshots

Snapshots are on by default; to disable them, set the hbase.snapshot.enabled property in hbase-site.xml to false.

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

To enable snapshots after you have disabled them, set hbase.snapshot.enabled to true.

Snapshots do not affect HBase performance if they are not used.