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You can use a script like this to create snapshots of old and new files - i.e. search files which are older than 3 days and search for files which are newer than 3 days, just make sure, you use the correct path to the cloudera jars. In the case of CDH5.15:   #!/bin/bash now=`date +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"` hdfs dfs -rm /data/cleanup_report/part=older3days/* hdfs dfs -rm /data/cleanup_report/part=newer3days/* hadoop jar /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/jars/search-mr-1.0.0-cdh5.15.1.jar org.apache.solr.hadoop.HdfsFindTool -find /data -type d -mtime +3 | sed "s/^/${now}\tolder3days\t/" | hadoop fs -put - /data/cleanup_report/part=older3days/data.csv hadoop jar /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/jars/search-mr-1.0.0-cdh5.15.1.jar org.apache.solr.hadoop.HdfsFindTool -find /data -type d -mtime -3 | sed "s/^/${now}\tnewer3days\t/" | hadoop fs -put - /data/cleanup_report/part=newer3days/data.csv   Then create an external table with partitions on top of this HDFS folder. ... View more