Hi,

Correct. Using "location=backupfolder"  didn't work for me.

The only way I made it work is with location=s3:/
Below my sample url which works well.
http://servername:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=BACKUP&name=personbackup&collection=person&repository=s3&location=s3:/


On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 17:23, Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for all of the information everybody. I want to determine if this is
> actually a bug before we release 9.0
>
> First, I want to clear up the usage of the "location" parameter:
>
>    - It is required, but you can provide "/" as an "empty" directory, much
>    like "s3:/".
>    - You don't have to include "s3:/" or "s3://". You can you "/dir",
>    "dir", "s3:/dir" or "s3://dir". All of these options will eventually be
>    converted to the "dir/" directory in your bucket.
>    - The s3 repository does not allow for directory names starting with
>    "/". In general this is to allow all of the above ^ examples to compute
> to
>    the same thing without users being confused how many '/'s they need
> after
>    "s3:". Now I see that this may have contributed to the confusion, but we
>    can always improve the documentation in the ref-guide.
>
> Now with these points cleared up, you said that you were unable to use the
> collections API calls with "location=backupfolder" did not work, even
> though you had a directory in your bucket named "backupfolder". Just to be
> clear, in S3 the folder did not have a "/" prefix correct? If so, this is
> indeed a bug and something that we should fix. I'll do more thorough
> testing once you confirm that the directory is following the expectation.
>
> - Houston
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 3:32 AM Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 1/22/2022 12:38 AM, Sergio García Maroto wrote:
> > > The only difference I can see i am using  collection API trying to
> backup
> > > solr cloud collection.
> >
> > That could do it.  I have done very little with SolrCloud beyond
> > occasionally firing up the cloud example.
> >
> > The Collections API backup is most likely a different code path than the
> > replication handler backup.  I wonder if the behavior you're seeing
> > would be considered a bug.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shawn
> >
>

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