import time import datetime from datetime import date import sys import os
tablename=sys.argv[1] backupDst=sys.argv[2] today=date.today() if today.day == 15: //every month, we do a full backup backupSubFolder=backupDst+today.isoformat()+"-full" cmd="hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.Export %s %s"%(tablename,backupSubFolder) else: