Exactly. That's why I am thinking backup should take regular copies of the index files instead of using hard links.
In any case, I will open a different bug for snapshooter since that doesn't work on OS X for the same reason. Bill On 7/19/06, Yonik Seeley (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-29?page=comments#action_12422162 ] Yonik Seeley commented on SOLR-29: ---------------------------------- That is a point... Lucene never changes segment files, so it's not a problem there, *but* if there is disk corruption, or if someone goes and manually edits a segment file with vi or something, then the "backup" will also be affected. > backup utility does not work on OS X > ------------------------------------ > > Key: SOLR-29 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-29 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: Darwin berlin.local 8.7.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.7.1: Wed Jun 7 16:19:56 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.72.obj~2/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 > Reporter: Philip Jacob > > The 'cp' command on OS X doesn't support the -l option, so the backup script doesn't work. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira