Hi everyone, We are using Solr 1.4.1 in my company and we need to do some backups of the indexes.
After some googling, I'm quite confused about the differents ways of backing up the index. First, I tried the scripts provided in the Solr distribution without success : I untarred the apache-solr-1.4.1.tar.gz into /opt; then I launched but I get this error : $ /opt/apache-solr-1.4.1/src/scripts/backup /opt/apache-solr-1.4.1/src/scripts/backup: line 26: /opt/apache-solr-1.4.1/src/bin/scripts-util: No such file or directory And that's true : there is no /opt/apache-solr-1.4.1/src/bin/scripts-util but a /opt/apache-solr-1.4.1/src/scripts/scripts-util Is this normal to distribute the scripts with a bad path ? Then I discovered that these utility scripts were not distributed anymore with the version 3.1.0 : were they not reliable ? can we get corrupted backups with this scripts ? Finally, we found the page about SolrReplication on the Solr wiki also this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3083314/solr-incremental-backup-on-real-time-system-with-heavy-indexand in particular the answer advising to use the replication. So we tried to use this replication mecanism (and call the URL on the slave with the query parameters command="backup" and location="/backup") but this method requires lots of i/o for big index. Is it the best way to get not corrupted backup of the index ? Is there another way to do the backup with Solr 3.1 ? Thanks in advance for your time. Regards, Laurent
