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… Continue reading Backup Best Practices
Help Center Categories: Solr Backups
Why Do Solr Backups Fail?
A “backup” is a copy of the deployment’s configuration files, index files, and any .JAR files that are needed. Any condition that interferes with copying these files can produce a… Continue reading Why Do Solr Backups Fail?
Backup/Restore missed a collection!
Sometimes a client complains that a Backup/Restore missed a collection. In this situation, we often find that the collection was not fully replicated to all of the servers in the… Continue reading Backup/Restore missed a collection!
Are Custom Zookeeper Folders Backed Up?
SearchStax clients sometimes ask if they can add their own files to custom Zookeeper directories to include them in system backups. We generally advise that our clients do not store… Continue reading Are Custom Zookeeper Folders Backed Up?
How Much Free Disk Space Do I Have?
The SearchStax Cloud backup feature requires abundant free disk space in order to succeed. Backups may fail intermittently when the size of the index(es) is more than a third of… Continue reading How Much Free Disk Space Do I Have?
Do SearchStax Cloud backups support sharding?
See What is a Solr collection/core/shard/replica? for help in distinguishing these critical Solr concepts. Standard backups in SearchStax Cloud rely on the principle that every Solr node contains a replica… Continue reading Do SearchStax Cloud backups support sharding?
Access to the Path is Denied
While upgrading the Sitecore Module to version 1.4.1, a client reported this error: This issue can sometimes occur when the Sitecore AppPool doesn’t have proper permissions. Make sure that the… Continue reading Access to the Path is Denied
SNAPSHOT Errors
Sometimes a client notices SNAPSHOT errors in the solr.log file. These messages are sometimes generated during the Backup process. If your backups are succeeding, you may ignore the messages. If… Continue reading SNAPSHOT Errors
How to Export a Collection
SearchStax Cloud users sometimes ask us how to export a large Solr collection to a reloadable file. The Solr “cursor” feature is the right tool for this job. Performance Problems… Continue reading How to Export a Collection