: First, I tried the scripts provided in the Solr distribution without success
...
: And that's true : there is no /opt/apache-solr-1.4.1/src/bin/scripts-util
: but a /opt/apache-solr-1.4.1/src/scripts/scripts-util
: Is this normal to distribute the scripts with a bad path ?
it looks like you are trying to run the scripts from the "src" directory
of the distro ... they are ment to be installed in a "bin" directory
in your solr home dir (so they can locate the default data dir, etc...)
If you haven't seen them already...
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CollectionDistribution
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCollectionDistributionScripts
: Then I discovered that these utility scripts were not distributed anymore
: with the version 3.1.0 : were they not reliable ? can we get corrupted
: backups with this scripts ?
no, as far as i know they work great.
they were not included in the *binary* distributions of Solr, but they
were most certianly included in the *source* distributions ... i think
that was actually an oversight ... 3.1 is hte first time we had a binary
distibution, and there's no reason i know of why they shouldn't have been
in both.
(in general, these scripts have fallen out of favor because they aren't as
portable or as easy to test as the java based replication, so they are
easy to forget)
-Hoss
