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Hrishikesh Gadre updated SOLR-9038:
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    Description: 
Currently work is under-way to implement backup/restore API for Solr cloud 
(SOLR-5750). SOLR-5750 is about providing an ability to "copy" index files and 
collection metadata to a configurable location. 

In addition to this, we should also provide a facility to create "named" 
snapshots for Solr collection. Here by "snapshot" I mean configuring the 
underlying Lucene IndexDeletionPolicy to not delete a specific commit point 
(e.g. using PersistentSnapshotIndexDeletionPolicy). This should not be confused 
with SOLR-5340 which implements core level "backup" functionality.

The primary motivation of this feature is to decouple recording/preserving a 
known consistent state of a collection from actually "copying" the relevant 
files to a physically separate location. This decoupling have number of 
advantages
- We can use specialized data-copying tools for transferring Solr index files. 
e.g. in Hadoop environment, typically 
[distcp|https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/distcp2.html] tool is used to 
copy files from one location to other. This tool provides various options to 
configure degree of parallelism, bandwidth usage as well as integration with 
different types and versions of file systems (e.g. AWS S3, Azure Blob store 
etc.)
- This separation of concern would also help Solr to focus on the key 
functionality (i.e. querying and indexing) while delegating the copy operation 
to the tools built for that purpose.
- Users can decide if/when to copy the data files as against creating a 
snapshot. e.g. a user may want to create a snapshot of a collection before 
making an experimental change (e.g. updating/deleting docs, schema change 
etc.). If the experiment is successful, he can delete the snapshot (without 
having to copy the files). If the experiment is failed, then he can copy the 
files associated with the snapshot and restore from the snapshot.

Note that Apache Blur project is also providing a similar feature 
[BLUR-132|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BLUR-132]

  was:
Currently work is under-way to implement backup/restore API for Solr cloud 
(SOLR-5750). SOLR-5750 is about providing an ability to "copy" index files and 
collection metadata to a configurable location. 

In addition to this, we should also provide a facility to create "named" 
snapshots for Solr collection. Here by "snapshot" I mean configuring the 
underlying Lucene IndexDeletionPolicy to not delete a specific commit point 
(e.g. using PersistentSnapshotIndexDeletionPolicy). This should not be confused 
with SOLR-5340 which implements core level "backup" functionality.

The primary motivation of this feature is to decouple recording/preserving a 
known consistent state of a collection from actually "copying" the relevant 
files to a physically separate location. This decoupling have number of 
advantages
- We can use specialized data-copying tools for transferring Solr index files. 
e.g. in Hadoop environment, typically 
[distcp|https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/distcp2.html] tool is used to 
copy files from one location to other. This tool provides various options to 
configure degree of parallelism, bandwidth usage as well as integration with 
different types and versions of file systems (e.g. AWS S3, Azure Blob store 
etc.)
- This separation of concern would also help Solr to focus on the key 
functionality (i.e. querying and indexing) while delegating the copy operation 
to the tools built for that purpose.
- Users can decide if/when to copy the data files as against creating a 
snapshot. e.g. a user may want to create a snapshot of a collection before 
making an experimental change (e.g. updating/deleting docs, schema change 
etc.). If the experiment is successful, he can delete the snapshot (without 
having to copy the files). The experiment failed, then he can copy the files 
associated with the snapshot and restore from the snapshot.

Note that Apache Blur project is also providing a similar feature 
[BLUR-132|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BLUR-132]


> Ability to create/delete/list snapshots for a solr collection
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-9038
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9038
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: SolrCloud
>            Reporter: Hrishikesh Gadre
>
> Currently work is under-way to implement backup/restore API for Solr cloud 
> (SOLR-5750). SOLR-5750 is about providing an ability to "copy" index files 
> and collection metadata to a configurable location. 
> In addition to this, we should also provide a facility to create "named" 
> snapshots for Solr collection. Here by "snapshot" I mean configuring the 
> underlying Lucene IndexDeletionPolicy to not delete a specific commit point 
> (e.g. using PersistentSnapshotIndexDeletionPolicy). This should not be 
> confused with SOLR-5340 which implements core level "backup" functionality.
> The primary motivation of this feature is to decouple recording/preserving a 
> known consistent state of a collection from actually "copying" the relevant 
> files to a physically separate location. This decoupling have number of 
> advantages
> - We can use specialized data-copying tools for transferring Solr index 
> files. e.g. in Hadoop environment, typically 
> [distcp|https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/distcp2.html] tool is used to 
> copy files from one location to other. This tool provides various options to 
> configure degree of parallelism, bandwidth usage as well as integration with 
> different types and versions of file systems (e.g. AWS S3, Azure Blob store 
> etc.)
> - This separation of concern would also help Solr to focus on the key 
> functionality (i.e. querying and indexing) while delegating the copy 
> operation to the tools built for that purpose.
> - Users can decide if/when to copy the data files as against creating a 
> snapshot. e.g. a user may want to create a snapshot of a collection before 
> making an experimental change (e.g. updating/deleting docs, schema change 
> etc.). If the experiment is successful, he can delete the snapshot (without 
> having to copy the files). If the experiment is failed, then he can copy the 
> files associated with the snapshot and restore from the snapshot.
> Note that Apache Blur project is also providing a similar feature 
> [BLUR-132|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BLUR-132]



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