Greetings. Solr 7.6, cloud.
>From what I've researched, backup and restore is pretty straightforward. BACKUP and RESTORE are collection commands and the backup is to be put on a shared filesystem. So far so good. I'm a bit concerned about the RESTORE action. A RESTORE command will create a new collection, meaning either I need to pick a new name or delete the old one first. And if I pick a new name, that would still mean restarting all clients that have to connect to it. The documentation speaks or using ALIAS, but I don't see how that works. I can only create an alias for an existing collection, so I'd first have to restore the backup to a different name, verify it is correct, delete the old collection and then give it an alias that is the name of the old collection? Or how is this supposed to work? Because honestly, deleting the existing collection first is rather scary and sounds like downtime for a restore is unavoidable. So, how to properly restore? Kind regards, Koen De Groote
