Re: Replication as backup in SolrCloud

Hello Gr. We are in a similar situation to yours... and we are using https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8146 It is a small patch for the SolrJ client that can send all of your queries to your main DC unless all nodes in the main DC are down. Write/updates/delete and admin operations remai

Re: Replication as backup in SolrCloud

We built and open sourced haft precisely for such use cases. https://github.com/bloomreach/solrcloud-haft You can clone an entire cluster or selective collections between clusters. It has only been tested upto solr 4.10. Let me know if you run into i

Re: Replication as backup in SolrCloud

Currently, one is best off treating these as two separate clusters and having your client send the data to both, or reproducing your system-of-record and running your DCs completely separately. Hopefully soon, though, there'll be what you're asking for active/passive DCs, see: https://issues.apach