diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index cf58b9047fd..7216b71e173 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1049,6 +1049,9 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    	       LZO when LZO isn't available
    HBASE-3082  For ICV gets, first look in MemStore before reading StoreFiles
                (prakash via jgray)
+   HBASE-3167  HBase Export: Add ability to export specific Column Family;
+               Turn Block Cache off during export; improve usage doc
+               (Kannan Muthukkaruppan via Stack)
 
   NEW FEATURES
    HBASE-1961  HBase EC2 scripts
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Export.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Export.java
index d328915dbfa..a42a125fea4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Export.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Export.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.SequenceFileOutputFormat;
@@ -91,6 +92,10 @@ public class Export {
     long startTime = args.length > 3? Long.parseLong(args[3]): 0L;
     long endTime = args.length > 4? Long.parseLong(args[4]): Long.MAX_VALUE;
     s.setTimeRange(startTime, endTime);
+    s.setCacheBlocks(false);
+    if (conf.get(TableInputFormat.SCAN_COLUMN_FAMILY) != null) {
+      s.addFamily(Bytes.toBytes(conf.get(TableInputFormat.SCAN_COLUMN_FAMILY)));
+    }
     LOG.info("verisons=" + versions + ", starttime=" + startTime +
       ", endtime=" + endTime);
     TableMapReduceUtil.initTableMapperJob(tableName, s, Exporter.class, null,
@@ -111,8 +116,16 @@ public class Export {
     if (errorMsg != null && errorMsg.length() > 0) {
       System.err.println("ERROR: " + errorMsg);
     }
-    System.err.println("Usage: Export <tablename> <outputdir> [<versions> " +
-      "[<starttime> [<endtime>]]]");
+    System.err.println("Usage: Export [-D <property=value>]* <tablename> <outputdir> [<versions> " +
+      "[<starttime> [<endtime>]]]\n");
+    System.err.println("  Note: -D properties will be applied to the conf used. ");
+    System.err.println("  For example: ");
+    System.err.println("   -D mapred.output.compress=true");
+    System.err.println("   -D mapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec");
+    System.err.println("   -D mapred.output.compression.type=BLOCK");
+    System.err.println("  Additionally, the following SCAN properties can be specified");
+    System.err.println("  to control/limit what is exported..");
+    System.err.println("   -D " + TableInputFormat.SCAN_COLUMN_FAMILY + "=<familyName>");
   }
 
   /**