I think it's depends what you are backing up and restoring from. Hardware failure? Accidental delete? For my use case my master indexer stores the index on a San with daily snap shots for reliability, then my live searching master is on a San as well, my live slave searchers are all on SSD drives for speed. In my situation that means the test index is backed up daily. A copy of the live index is backed up daily and the SSD's can die and it doesn't matter to me. I don't think there is a best practice, just find how risk adverse you are and how much performance you require
> On May 16, 2017, at 6:38 PM, Jay Potharaju <jspothar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I was wondering if there are any best practices for doing solr backup & > restore. In the past when running backup, I stopped indexing during the > backup process. > > I am looking at this documentation and it says that indexing can continue > when backup is in progress. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Making+and+Restoring+Backups > > Any recommendations ? > > -- > Thanks > Jay
