Hi Otis, It seems to me that I'm going to have to write a script anyway that takes handles the retention of the backups. Plus it doesn't seem optimal that I would run a solr instance on that server, taking up memory when I could probably write a script that would pull all the data directly using the replication handler. My current thinking is that I could imitate a slave and pull the index directly from the master by calling the replication handler with http requests. Does this seem reasonable?
Eva On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Otis Gospodnetic < otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
