CDCR is being deprecated. so I wouldn’t suggest it for the long term.
> On Aug 10, 2020, at 9:33 PM, Ashwin Ramesh <ash...@canva.com.INVALID> wrote:
>
> I would love an answer to this too!
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 12:18 AM Bram Van Dam <bram.van...@intix.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Been reading up about the various ways of creating backups. The whole
>> "shared filesystem for Solrcloud backups"-thing is kind of a no-go in
>> our environment, so I've been looking for ways around that, and here's
>> what I've come up with so far:
>>
>> 1. Stop applications from writing to solr
>>
>> 2. Commit everything
>>
>> 3. Identify a single core for each shard in each collection
>>
>> 4. Snapshot that core using CREATESNAPSHOT in the Collections API
>>
>> 5. Once complete, re-enable application write access to Solr
>>
>> 6. Create a backup from these snapshots using the replication handler's
>> backup function (replication?command=backup&commitName=mySnapshot)
>>
>> 7. Put the backups somewhere safe
>>
>> 8. Clean up snapshots
>>
>>
>> This seems ... too good to be true? I've seen so many threads about how
>> hard it is to create backups in SolrCloud on this mailing list over the
>> years, but this seems pretty straightforward? Am I missing some
>> glaringly obvious reason why this will fail catastrophically?
>>
>> Using Solr 7.7 in this case.
>>
>> Feedback much appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Bram
>>
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