: As for backing up, you could try making a backup using IndexWriter's : addIndexes method, and I imagine hard-links would work, too.
Hardlinks do in fact work quite well. This is how the Solr backup scripts work... http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/solr/trunk/src/scripts/backup -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]