I would create a replication slave, for which you can specify whatever
location you want, even put it on a different machine. If ran on the same
machine, the slave can be another core in the same Solr instance.
On 5/17/2011 2:20 PM, Dietrich wrote:
> I am using Solr Replication to create a snapshot for backup purposes
> after each optimize:
> <requestHandler name="/replication" class="solr.ReplicationHandler" >
> <lst name="master">
> <str name="backupAfter">optimize</str>
> <str
> name="confFiles">schema.xml,mapping-ISOLatin1Accent.txt,protwords.txt,stopwords.txt,synonyms.txt,elevate.xml</str>
> </lst>
> </requestHandler>
>
>
> That works fine, but i need to create the snapshots somewhere outside
> the data directory. I tried specifying a location like this:
> <str name="location">${solr.home}/backup/site</str>
> or
> <str name="location">/opt/solr/backup/site</str>
>
> but Solr is complaining:
> SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "snapshooter" (in
> directory "solr/bin"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or
> directory
>
> How can I specify the location for the backup in solrconfig.xml
>
> Dietrich
>
