I would make one *collection* for each date range and then make a
collection alias or aliases that span the ones that you want to query.
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud#Collection_Aliases
I don't have a good idea for you for how to handle indexing off-cluster,
however.
Michael Della Bitta
I am considering using SolrCloud, but I have a use case that I am not sure
if it covers.
I would like to keep an index up to date in realtime, but also I would like
to sometimes restate the past. The way that I would restate the past is to
do batch processing over historical data.
My idea is that
