Re: SolrCloud Collection Backup - Solr 5.5.4

2018-06-05 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 6/4/2018 5:36 AM, Greenhorn Techie wrote: 1. In the SolrCloud, as a single host can have information about multiple shards (either leader or replica), how does the backup API handle the underlying data copy? I presume it will simply copy the data across ALL the shards (both leader and

Re: SolrCloud Collection Backup - Solr 5.5.4

2018-06-04 Thread Greenhorn Techie
Thanks Shawn for your detailed reply. It has helped to better my understanding. Below is my summarised understanding. In a SolrCloud setup with version less than 6.1, there is no ‘elegant’ way of handling collection backups and restore. Instead, have to use the manual backup and restore APIs

Re: SolrCloud Collection Backup - Solr 5.5.4

2018-06-02 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 6/2/2018 1:50 AM, Shawn Heisey wrote: If you provide a location parameter, it will write a new backup directory in that location. https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/making-and-restoring-backups.html#standalone-mode-backups I verified that this parameter is in the 5.5 docs too, I would

Re: SolrCloud Collection Backup - Solr 5.5.4

2018-06-02 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 6/1/2018 7:23 AM, Greenhorn Techie wrote: > We are running SolrCloud with version 5.5.4. As I understand, Solr > Collection Backup and Restore API are only supported from version 6 > onwards. So wondering what is the best mechanism to get our collections > backed-up on older Solr version. That

SolrCloud Collection Backup - Solr 5.5.4

2018-06-01 Thread Greenhorn Techie
Hi, We are running SolrCloud with version 5.5.4. As I understand, Solr Collection Backup and Restore API are only supported from version 6 onwards. So wondering what is the best mechanism to get our collections backed-up on older Solr version. When I ran backup command on a particular node (curl