5. Clone a table from snapshot

From a snapshot you can create a new table (clone operation) with the same data, that you had, when the snapshot was taken. The clone operation, does not involve data copies. A change to the cloned table does not impact either the snapshot or the original table.

    $ C:\...\hbase..\bin\hbase.cmd shell
    hbase> clone_snapshot 'myTableSnapshot-122112', 'myNewTestTable'