Hi Eva, I think you just need to configure the Solr instance on your Windows and point it to your Solr master. It will then copy the index from the master periodically. Please see http://search-lucene.com/?q=solr+replication+backup for some more info about doing backups - you don't need rsync. Once you set up Windows as described above, you can call the Solr replication handler on it and tell it to make an index shapshot, which is basically a copy of the index at that point in time.
Otis -- Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Eva Lacy <e...@lacy.ie> wrote: > Hi All, > > It takes a long time to reindex our database and so I'd like to be able to > backup the solr server. > I'm running solr 3.6.1 using tomcat on debian squeeze and I'd like to be > able to backup to a > windows server that contains the rest of our backups. > > There isn't much free space on the solr server. Enough for maybe 3 backups. > Ideally I would like to be able to backup the index by pulling it similar > to how a solr slave does > but from the windows server. I heard that it uses something like rsync to > do that. > That way I could create a backup solution that backs up daily for 3 days, > then holds onto one of those every 10 days > or something similar. > > Any ideas on this would be appreciated. > > Eva >
