Well, it can always be rebuilt from the backed-up index. That suggester reads the _stored_ fields from the docs to build up the suggester index. With a lot of documents that could take a very long time though.
If you desperately need it, AFAIK you'll have to back it up whenever you build it I'm afraid. Best, Erick On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Oakley, Craig (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] <craig.oak...@nih.gov> wrote: > I have a client whose Solr installation creates a > analyzingInfixSuggesterIndexDir directory besides index and tlog. I notice > that this analyzingInfixSuggesterIndexDir is not included in backups (created > by replication?command=backup). Is there a way to include this? Or does it > not need to be backed-up? > > I haven't needed this yet, but wanted to ask before I find that I might need > it.