Index: hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/snapshot/ExportSnapshot.java =================================================================== --- hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/snapshot/ExportSnapshot.java (revision 1481227) +++ hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/snapshot/ExportSnapshot.java (working copy) @@ -608,7 +608,9 @@ // Check if the snapshot already in-progress if (outputFs.exists(snapshotTmpDir)) { - System.err.println("A snapshot with the same name '" + snapshotName + "' is in-progress"); + System.err.println("A snapshot with the same name '" + snapshotName + "' may be in-progress"); + System.err.println("Please check " + snapshotTmpDir + ". If the snapshot has completed, "); + System.err.println("consider removing " + snapshotTmpDir + " before retrying export"); return 1; }