I don't know that it's too bad though - its always been the case that if you do a backup while indexing, it's just going to get up to the last hard commit. With SolrCloud that will still be the case. So just make sure you do a hard commit right before taking the backup - yes, it might miss a few docs in the tran log, but if you are taking a back up while indexing, you don't have great precision in any case - you will roughly get a snapshot for around that time - even without SolrCloud, if you are worried about precision and getting every update into that backup, you want to stop indexing and commit first. But if you just want a rough snapshot for around that time, in both cases you can still just don't hard commit and take a snapshot.
Mark Sent from my iPhone On Sep 6, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > The replication handler's backup command was built for pre-SolrCloud. > It takes a snapshot of the index but it is unaware of the transaction > log which is a key component in SolrCloud. Hence unless you stop > updates, commit your changes and then take a backup, you will likely > miss some updates. > > That being said, I'm curious to see how peer sync behaves when you try > to restore from a snapshot. When you say that you haven't been > successful in restoring, what exactly is the behaviour you observed? > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Aditya Sakhuja <aditya.sakh...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was looking for a good backup / recovery solution for the solrcloud >> indexes. I am more looking for restoring the indexes from the index >> snapshot, which can be taken using the replicationHandler's backup command. >> >> I am looking for something that works with solrcloud 4.3 eventually, but >> still relevant if you tested with a previous version. >> >> I haven't been successful in have the restored index replicate across the >> new replicas, after I restart all the nodes, with one node having the >> restored index. >> >> Is restoring the indexes on all the nodes the best way to do it ? >> -- >> Regards, >> -Aditya Sakhuja > > > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
