: My question is, even with backup, solr will still have a single index, : right? We will have huge amount of data in index - it is ever increasing.
if you have older docs you want to retire out of your index, you'll need to do that manually (delete by query can come in handy) : I want to archive older data - say every 2 weeks and start a new index - but : want the older indices to be searchable. : : I can potentially take a snapshot at master at 2 week interval, backup and : restart master with fresh index. you don't really need to restart the master ... you could pull snapshots from your master to a slave, and then when you decide that slave is "full" of old docs you stop pulling snapshots, and delete the old docs from your master and start replicating to a new slave. : Does solr handle this - how? Or how do I solve this problem? Open to other : suggestions too. what you're describing is fairly outside of what i would consider "normal" Solr usage .. it seems very special purpose. -Hoss
