Hi Mike, I filed SOLR-9744 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-9744> to track this work. Please comment on this jira if you have any suggestions.
Thanks Hrishikesh On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Hrishikesh Gadre <gadre.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Currently we don't have capability to take rolling backups for the Solr > collections. I think it should be fairly straightforward to write a script > that implements this functionality outside of Solr. If you post that > script, may be we can even ship it as part of Solr itself (for the benefit > of the community). > > Thanks > Hrishikesh > > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Mike Thomsen <mikerthom...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I read over the docs ( >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Making+and+ >> Restoring+Backups) >> and am not quite sure what route to take. My team is looking for a way to >> backup the entire index of a SolrCloud collection with regular rotation >> similar to the backup option available in a single node deployment. >> >> We have plenty of space in our HDFS cluster. Resources are not an issue in >> the least to have a rolling back up of say, the last seven days. Is there >> a >> good way to implement this sort of rolling backup with the APIs or will we >> have to roll some of the functionality ourselves? >> >> I'm not averse to using the API to dump a copy of each shard to HDFS. >> Something like this: >> >> /solr/collection/replication?command=backup&name=shard_1_1&numberToKeep=7 >> >> Is that a viable route to achieve this or do we need to do something else? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mike >> > >
