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How to backup Solr on Alfresco CE 5.2

mzpari — Mon, 29 May 2017 10:24:56 GMT

Hi,after some testing, we're currently setting up our Alfresco environment and writing backup scripts. I know that the Solr indexes are backed up automatically and that we can change that schedule. But in from our experience backups are much more reliable, when you're able to make a fresh backup fro

Re: How to backup Solr on Alfresco CE 5.2

cesarista — Mon, 29 May 2017 15:23:41 GMT

Yes, JMX is an enterprise feature, so you can not run this in Community version

I remember that in SOLR 1.4, I used some replication API to trigger directly a backup, so you probably will find a similar service in SOLR 4 or SOLR 6. And this can be done via curl with a client certificate via SOLR API :

Running the Alfresco Solr backup from the command line – : : blyx.com : : Blog : : Toni de la Fuente : :

Regards.

--C.

Re: How to backup Solr on Alfresco CE 5.2

mzpari — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 08:11:46 GMT

Thank you, that helped a lot. I hope that will be added to the manual for the community edition, since the described way in it is not working with the community edition.

Hint for others: Replace "solr" with "solr4" in the URL fpr the current versions of alfresco and replace "alfresco" with "alfresco-community" in the file path if you're using the default installation directory.