HBASE-28680 BackupLogCleaner causes HMaster WALs to pile up indefinitely (#6006)

We have been trying to setup daily incremental backups for hundreds of clusters at my day
job. Recently we discovered that old WALs were piling up across many clusters inline with when we
began running incremental backups.

This led to the realization that the BackupLogCleaner will always skip archived HMaster WALs. This
is a problem because, if a cleaner is skipping a given file, then the CleanerChore will never
delete it.

This seems like a misunderstanding of what it means to "skip" a WAL in a BaseLogCleanerDelegate,
and, instead, we should always return these HMaster WALs as deletable from the perspective of the
BackupLogCleaner. We could subject them to the same scrutiny as RegionServer WALs: are they older
than the most recent successful backup? But, if I understand correctly, HMaster WALs do not
contain any data relevant to table backups, so that would be unnecessary.

Co-authored-by: Ray Mattingly <rmattingly@hubspot.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk@apache.org>

Author: 2 people

hbase-backup/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/backup/master/BackupLogCleaner.java

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseInterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.BackupInfo;
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MasterServices;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.cleaner.BaseLogCleanerDelegate;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.region.MasterRegionFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.net.Address;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.procedure2.store.wal.WALProcedureStore;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.wal.WAL;
@@ -123,27 +125,8 @@ public Iterable<FileStatus> getDeletableFiles(Iterable<FileStatus> files) {
       return Collections.emptyList();
     }
     for (FileStatus file : files) {
-      String fn = file.getPath().getName();
-      if (fn.startsWith(WALProcedureStore.LOG_PREFIX)) {
+      if (canDeleteFile(addressToLastBackupMap, file.getPath())) {
         filteredFiles.add(file);
-        continue;
-      }
-
-      try {
-        Address walServerAddress =
-          Address.fromString(BackupUtils.parseHostNameFromLogFile(file.getPath()));
-        long walTimestamp = WAL.getTimestamp(file.getPath().getName());
-
-        if (
-          !addressToLastBackupMap.containsKey(walServerAddress)
-            || addressToLastBackupMap.get(walServerAddress) >= walTimestamp
-        ) {
-          filteredFiles.add(file);
-        }
-      } catch (Exception ex) {
-        LOG.warn(
-          "Error occurred while filtering file: {} with error: {}. Ignoring cleanup of this log",
-          file.getPath(), ex.getMessage());
       }
     }
 
@@ -176,4 +159,39 @@ public void stop(String why) {
   public boolean isStopped() {
     return this.stopped;
   }
+
+  protected static boolean canDeleteFile(Map<Address, Long> addressToLastBackupMap, Path path) {
+    if (isHMasterWAL(path)) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    try {
+      String hostname = BackupUtils.parseHostNameFromLogFile(path);
+      if (hostname == null) {
+        LOG.warn(
+          "Cannot parse hostname from RegionServer WAL file: {}. Ignoring cleanup of this log",
+          path);
+        return false;
+      }
+      Address walServerAddress = Address.fromString(hostname);
+      long walTimestamp = WAL.getTimestamp(path.getName());
+
+      if (
+        !addressToLastBackupMap.containsKey(walServerAddress)
+          || addressToLastBackupMap.get(walServerAddress) >= walTimestamp
+      ) {
+        return true;
+      }
+    } catch (Exception ex) {
+      LOG.warn("Error occurred while filtering file: {}. Ignoring cleanup of this log", path, ex);
+      return false;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  private static boolean isHMasterWAL(Path path) {
+    String fn = path.getName();
+    return fn.startsWith(WALProcedureStore.LOG_PREFIX)
+      || fn.endsWith(MasterRegionFactory.ARCHIVED_WAL_SUFFIX);
+  }
 }

hbase-backup/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/backup/master/TestBackupLogCleaner.java

@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseClassTestRule;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.backup.BackupType;
@@ -132,4 +134,21 @@ public void testBackupLogCleaner() throws Exception {
       conn.close();
     }
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCleansUpHMasterWal() {
+    Path path = new Path("/hbase/MasterData/WALs/hmaster,60000,1718808578163");
+    assertTrue(BackupLogCleaner.canDeleteFile(Collections.emptyMap(), path));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCleansUpArchivedHMasterWal() {
+    Path normalPath =
+      new Path("/hbase/oldWALs/hmaster%2C60000%2C1716224062663.1716247552189$masterlocalwal$");
+    assertTrue(BackupLogCleaner.canDeleteFile(Collections.emptyMap(), normalPath));
+
+    Path masterPath = new Path(
+      "/hbase/MasterData/oldWALs/hmaster%2C60000%2C1716224062663.1716247552189$masterlocalwal$");
+    assertTrue(BackupLogCleaner.canDeleteFile(Collections.emptyMap(), masterPath));
+  }
 }