From a227e85cca186a9c52bb77ee96abf0ecfce27ff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jeffreyz <jeffreyz@unknown>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:46:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HBASE-10198: Add a note on how to Import 0.94 exported file
 to a 0.96 cluster or onwards

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk@1552056 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/main/docbkx/ops_mgt.xml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/docbkx/ops_mgt.xml b/src/main/docbkx/ops_mgt.xml
index fa54d5e71ab..c12f8d46c2a 100644
--- a/src/main/docbkx/ops_mgt.xml
+++ b/src/main/docbkx/ops_mgt.xml
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ Valid program names are:
        <title>Import</title>
        <para>Import is a utility that will load data that has been exported back into HBase.  Invoke via:
 <programlisting>$ bin/hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.Import &lt;tablename&gt; &lt;inputdir&gt;
+</programlisting>
+       </para>
+       <para>To import 0.94 exported files in a 0.96 cluster or onwards, you need to set system property "hbase.import.version" when running the import command as below:
+<programlisting>$ bin/hbase -Dhbase.import.version=0.94 org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.Import &lt;tablename&gt; &lt;inputdir&gt;
 </programlisting>
        </para>
     </section>