getBackupMeta#

swordfish.function.getBackupMeta()#

Return a dictionary with information about the backup of a partition in a DFS table, which contains the following keys:

  • schema: the schema of the table

  • dfsPath: the DFS path to database chunks

  • rows: the number of records in a chunk

  • chunkID: the chunk ID

  • cid: the commit ID

Parameters:
  • backupDir (Constant) – A string indicating the directory where the backup is saved.

  • dbPath (Constant) – A string indicating the path of a DFS database. For example: “dfs://demo”.

  • partition (Constant) – A string indicating the path of a partition under the database. For example: “/20190101/GOOG”.

  • tableName (Constant) – A string indicating a distributed table name.