HBASE-10128 Improve copy table doc to include information about versions (Bharath V)

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<note><title>Scanner Caching</title>
<para>Caching for the input Scan is configured via <code>hbase.client.scanner.caching</code> in the job configuration.
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<note><title>Versions</title>
<para>By default, CopyTable utility only copies the latest version of row cells unless <code>--versions=n</code> is explicitly specified in the command.
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See Jonathan Hsieh's <link xlink:href="http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2012/06/online-hbase-backups-with-copytable-2/">Online HBase Backups with CopyTable</link> blog post for more on <command>CopyTable</command>.