Just rebuild the index. Pretty sure they’re gone if they aren’t in your vm backup, and solr isn’t a document storage tool, it’s a place to index the data from your document store, so it’s understood more or less that it can always be rebuilt when needed
> On Nov 13, 2020, at 9:52 PM, Alex Hanna <alex.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've accidentally deleted some documents and am trying to recover them. > Unfortunately I don't have a snapshot or backup of the core, but have daily > backups of my VM. When my sysadmin restores the data folder, however, > the documents don't come back for some reason. > > I'm running a pretty old version of Solr (5.x). Also, it looks like the > only new files created recently are .liv files, which were created at the > time of deletion, and also a segment_ file. > > I'd love some guidance on this. > > Thanks, > - A > > -- > Alex Hanna, PhD > alex-hanna.com > @alexhanna