How can one download other configs, such as ranger-security.xml ? Do you need to use other APIs to get these files? ... View more

Just so everyone is aware: The snapshot created dirs must be named the same on both sides to do the diff distcp: Cannot find the snapshot of directory /group/bti/snapshot with name /group/bti/.snapshot/s20170908-080603.486 #LOF: /group/bti/snapshot/.snapshot/s20170908-212827.054 Due to default naming conventions, the folders will not be the same. The default folder names created are seemingly time-stamped to the second. Name each created folder with todays day, such as "s20170908" so when the diff distcp runs, it can find and update the same-day folder on the LOF side. ... View more

Thanks for the update! I ran into this myself when designing a Python HDFS snapshot manager for two of our clusters. ... View more