I have a writeup of how to perform safe backups here: https://gist.github.com/ralph-tice/887414a7f8082a0cb828
There are some tickets around this work to further the ease of backups, especially https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5750 On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Vivek Pathak <vpat...@orgmeta.com> wrote: > I was able to get very good backup procedure by having cron job perform > compact on each shard and then copy out the physical shard (the full lucene > index directory to a backup server) > > Updates would need to be stopped during this period. And restore would be > as simple as copying in the backed up shard and restarting solr > >> On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:48 AM, elmerfudd <na...@012.net.il> wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm looking for a built-in SolrCloud backup mechanism. >> I want to backup my Index (scheduled / manual backups) while Indexing and >> searching. >> >> What is the proper way to perform this backup-restore task? >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Backuping-SolrCloud-tp4170624.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.