For a production system, the Best Practice is to schedule daily backups with retention set to seven days. This insures that you can revert the system to a working state that is as much as a week old.
Also, we recommend pausing data ingestion while the snapshot is being taken.
For more information about backing up your Solr deployment on SearchStax Cloud, see Solr Deployment Backups. SearchStax offers a Backup/Restore API. If your backups are not successful, see Why do backups fail?
Questions?
Do not hesitate to contact the SearchStax Support Desk.