Hi Damien, A backup command with async is supposed to return early. It is start the backup process and return.
Are you using the REQUESTSTATUS ( http://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/collections-api.html#collections-api ) API to validate if the backup is complete? On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Damien Kamerman <dami...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've noticed an issue with the Solr 6.5.1 Collections API BACKUP async > command returning early. The state is finished well before one shard is > finished. > > The collection I'm backing up has 12 shards across 6 nodes and I suspect > the issue is that it is not waiting for all backups on the node to finish. > > Alternatively, I if I change the request to not be async it works OK but > sometimes I get the exception "backup the collection time out:180s". > > Has anyone seen this, or knows a workaround? > > Cheers, > Damien. >