private void validateSrcPathListExists() throws IOException, LoginException {
    if (dataPathList.isEmpty()) {
      return;
    }
    try {
      for (Path dataPath : dataPathList) {
        listFilesInDir(dataPath);
      }
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
      logger.error("exporting data files in dir : " + dataPathList + " to " + exportRootDataDir + " failed");
      throw new FileNotFoundException(FILE_NOT_FOUND.format(e.getMessage()));
    }
  }
Since the bootstrap will do table directory level copy, need to check for existence of src path.
ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/parse/repl/dump/io/FileOperations.java