It is difficult to associate a class named SnapshotDeletionPolicy with taking backup of Lucene index.
Hien ________________________________ From: Thomas Matthijs <li...@selckin.be> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:02 AM Subject: Re: Taking backup of a Lucene index On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ashish Sarna <ashish.sa...@thepsi.com>wrote: > I want to take back-up of a Lucene index. I need to ensure that index files > would not change when I take their backup. > > > I am concerned about the housekeeping/merge/optimization activities which > Lucene performs internally. I am not sure when/how these activities are > performed by Lucene and how we can prevent them. > > Use a http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_2_1/core/org/apache/lucene/index/SnapshotDeletionPolicy.html Take a snapshot, backup/copy all the files in the commit, relase the snapshot