Re: Solr Cloud 7.3.1 backups (autofs/NFS)

2018-06-01 Thread Michael Joyner
It simply auto mounts NFS mount points under /net/$host/$export so is no different than having manually mounted NFS mount points for the purposes of backing up. Just be sure that your NFS host is set to export the appropriate file system location with the needed net mask so that your various n

Re: Solr Cloud 7.3.1 backups

2018-05-31 Thread Greg Roodt
Hi Rahul Solr is a secondary index. The system of record is a RDBMS. I'm currently looking at using AWS Elastic File System. Have you got any experience with this? I also thought about trying s3fs. When you say backup locally, what do you mean? Backup the files on disc without the associated Zoo

Re: Solr Cloud 7.3.1 backups

2018-05-31 Thread Rahul Singh
Greg, Is SolR your main system of record or is it a secondary index to a primary data store? Depending on the answer to that question I would recommend different options. If primary, then I would ask what is the underlying compute infrastructure. Is it container, VM , or bare metal. There are

Re: Solr Cloud 7.3.1 backups

2018-05-30 Thread Greg Roodt
Thanks for the confirmation Shawn. Distributed systems are hard, so this makes sense. I have a large, stable cluster (stable in terms of leadership and performance) with a single shard. The cluster scales up and down with additional PULL replicas over the day with the traffic curve. It's going to

Re: Solr Cloud 7.3.1 backups

2018-05-30 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 5/29/2018 3:01 PM, Greg Roodt wrote: > What is the best way to perform a backup of a Solr Cloud cluster? Is there > a way to backup only the leader? From my tests with the collections admin > BACKUP command, all nodes in the cluster need to have access to a shared > filesystem. Surely that isn't

Solr Cloud 7.3.1 backups

2018-05-29 Thread Greg Roodt
Hi What is the best way to perform a backup of a Solr Cloud cluster? Is there a way to backup only the leader? From my tests with the collections admin BACKUP command, all nodes in the cluster need to have access to a shared filesystem. Surely that isn't necessary if you are backing up the leader