This article may be of some use... What isn't clear is what effect either of the two strategies mentioned would have on serving responses to queries... It would be nice if the backup was a "low priority thread" compared to the needs of the server in question, but I've never had to dig that deep before...
https://n2ws.com/how-to-guides/automate-amazon-ec2-instance-backup.html On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:00 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > Hmmm... > > Can you (fairly quickly) reproduce this AWS environment (including the > indexes)? Or does it require that several week process to provision new > Solr boxes...? > > What happens now if one of those ec2 instances gets into trouble? Do you > have autoscaling groups set up? > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Kelly, Frank <frank.ke...@here.com> wrote: > >> We have a large SolrCloud deployment on AWS (350m documents spread across >> 3 collections, each with 3 shards and 3 replicas) >> Running on 3 x r3.xlarge’s with the data stored on EBS drives with >> Provisioned IOPS >> >> Currently it’s handling 38m requests per day >> >> My question is how best should we back-up the search index? >> Is there someway to snapshot a backup while Solr remains online that >> doesn’t horribly affect performance? >> >> Right now in the event of a catastrophic failure if would take several >> weeks to reindex the data again based on the process we have now (which is >> outdated) >> >> -Frank >> >> [image: Description: Macintosh >> HD:Users:jerchow:Downloads:Asset_Package_01_160721:HERE_Logo_2016:sRGB:PDF:HERE_Logo_2016_POS_sRGB.pdf] >> >> >> >> *Frank Kelly* >> >> *Principal Software Engineer* >> >> AAA Identity Profile Team (SCBE / CDA) >> >> >> HERE >> >> 5 Wayside Rd, Burlington, MA 01803, USA >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+Wayside+Rd,+Burlington,+MA+01803,+USA&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> *42° 29' 7" N 71° 11' 32" W* >> >> >> [image: Description: >> /Users/nussbaum/_WORK/PROJECTS/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature/_Layout/_Images/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature_360.gif] >> <http://360.here.com/> [image: Description: >> /Users/nussbaum/_WORK/PROJECTS/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature/_Layout/_Images/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature_Twitter.gif] >> <https://www.twitter.com/here> [image: Description: >> /Users/nussbaum/_WORK/PROJECTS/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature/_Layout/_Images/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature_FB.gif] >> <https://www.facebook.com/here> [image: Description: >> /Users/nussbaum/_WORK/PROJECTS/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature/_Layout/_Images/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature_IN.gif] >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/heremaps> [image: Description: >> /Users/nussbaum/_WORK/PROJECTS/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature/_Layout/_Images/20160726_HERE_EMail_Signature_Insta.gif] >> <https://www.instagram.com/here/> >> > >
