Hi, Sorry for the late followup on this. Let me put in more details here.
*The problem:* Cannot successfully restore back the index backed up with '/replication?command=backup'. The backup was generated as * snapshot.yyyymmdd* *My setup and steps:* * * 6 solrcloud instances 7 zookeepers instances Steps: 1.> Take snapshot using *http://host1:8893/solr/replication?command=backup*, on one host only. move *snapshot.yyyymmdd *to some reliable storage. 2.> Stop all 6 solr instances, all 7 zk instances. 3.> Delete ../collectionname/data/* on all solrcloud nodes. ie. deleting the index data completely. 4.> Delete zookeeper/data/version*/* on all zookeeper nodes. 5.> Copy back index from backup to one of the nodes. \> cp *snapshot.yyyymmdd/* *../collectionname/data/index/* 6.> Restart all zk instances. Restart all solrcloud instances. *Outcome:* * * All solr instances are up. However, *num of docs = 0 *for all nodes. Looking at the node where the index was restored, there is a new index.yymmddhhmmss directory being created and index.properties pointing to it. That explains why no documents are reported. How do I have solrcloud pickup data from the index directory on a restart ? Thanks in advance, Aditya On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Aditya Sakhuja <aditya.sakh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Shalin and Mark for your responses. I am on the same page about the > conventions for taking the backup. However, I am less sure about the > restoration of the index. Lets say we have 3 shards across 3 solrcloud > servers. > > 1.> I am assuming we should take a backup from each of the shard leaders > to get a complete collection. do you think that will get the complete index > ( not worrying about what is not hard committed at the time of backup ). ? > > 2.> How do we go about restoring the index in a fresh solrcloud cluster ? > From the structure of the snapshot I took, I did not see any > replication.properties or index.properties which I see normally on a > healthy solrcloud cluster nodes. > if I have the snapshot named snapshot.20130905 does the > snapshot.20130905/* go into data/index ? > > Thanks > Aditya > > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Phone typing. The end should not say "don't hard commit" - it should say >> "do a hard commit and take a snapshot". >> >> Mark >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Sep 6, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I don't know that it's too bad though - its always been the case that >> if you do a backup while indexing, it's just going to get up to the last >> hard commit. With SolrCloud that will still be the case. So just make sure >> you do a hard commit right before taking the backup - yes, it might miss a >> few docs in the tran log, but if you are taking a back up while indexing, >> you don't have great precision in any case - you will roughly get a >> snapshot for around that time - even without SolrCloud, if you are worried >> about precision and getting every update into that backup, you want to stop >> indexing and commit first. But if you just want a rough snapshot for around >> that time, in both cases you can still just don't hard commit and take a >> snapshot. >> > >> > Mark >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> > On Sep 6, 2013, at 1:13 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < >> shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> The replication handler's backup command was built for pre-SolrCloud. >> >> It takes a snapshot of the index but it is unaware of the transaction >> >> log which is a key component in SolrCloud. Hence unless you stop >> >> updates, commit your changes and then take a backup, you will likely >> >> miss some updates. >> >> >> >> That being said, I'm curious to see how peer sync behaves when you try >> >> to restore from a snapshot. When you say that you haven't been >> >> successful in restoring, what exactly is the behaviour you observed? >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Aditya Sakhuja < >> aditya.sakh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> I was looking for a good backup / recovery solution for the solrcloud >> >>> indexes. I am more looking for restoring the indexes from the index >> >>> snapshot, which can be taken using the replicationHandler's backup >> command. >> >>> >> >>> I am looking for something that works with solrcloud 4.3 eventually, >> but >> >>> still relevant if you tested with a previous version. >> >>> >> >>> I haven't been successful in have the restored index replicate across >> the >> >>> new replicas, after I restart all the nodes, with one node having the >> >>> restored index. >> >>> >> >>> Is restoring the indexes on all the nodes the best way to do it ? >> >>> -- >> >>> Regards, >> >>> -Aditya Sakhuja >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >> > > > > -- > Regards, > -Aditya Sakhuja > -- Regards, -Aditya Sakhuja
