public static boolean shouldDumpMetaDataOnly(HiveConf conf) {
    return conf.getBoolVar(HiveConf.ConfVars.REPL_DUMP_METADATA_ONLY);
  }
validates if a table can be exported, similar to EximUtil.shouldExport with few replication
specific checks.
ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/repl/dump/Utils.java