Hello, Koen. What about switching "query" alias to restored collection, and then nuking the old one?
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:52 PM Koen De Groote <koen.degro...@limecraft.com> wrote: > Greetings. > > Solr 7.6, cloud. > > From what I've researched, backup and restore is pretty straightforward. > BACKUP and RESTORE are collection commands and the backup is to be put on a > shared filesystem. > > So far so good. > > I'm a bit concerned about the RESTORE action. A RESTORE command will create > a new collection, meaning either I need to pick a new name or delete the > old one first. > > And if I pick a new name, that would still mean restarting all clients that > have to connect to it. > > The documentation speaks or using ALIAS, but I don't see how that works. > > I can only create an alias for an existing collection, so I'd first have to > restore the backup to a different name, verify it is correct, delete the > old collection and then give it an alias that is the name of the old > collection? > > Or how is this supposed to work? > > Because honestly, deleting the existing collection first is rather scary > and sounds like downtime for a restore is unavoidable. > > So, how to properly restore? > > Kind regards, > Koen De Groote > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev
