Enhancements to Solr Backup and Restore Capabilities for Managed Search

1. More Reliable Backups for Large Datasets

• Backup process resiliency is increased by adding elastic timeout settings for larger datasets. Anyone managing hundreds of Gigabytes in Solr knows that backups can be finicky, but SearchStax backups analyze the collection directories upfront and take snapshots with optimized parameters based on each collection’s attributes.

• Take one-time backups or manage your backup schedules from the dashboard – Feature Documentation

2. Faster Restoration Times

• Backup restoration is generally done in a sequential manner for good reason. Let’s say you have multiple collections for multiple client applications on the same cluster. You may want to restore only one or a specific set of collections while leaving the remaining in their current state. In these scenarios, you’ll want to backup in a sequential manner to avoid overloading the system, and thus affecting the other collections’ performance. But what if you want to do a full overwrite? In this scenario you are most likely facing downtime due to sudden data corruption, so having a low recovery time objective becomes critical. Now you can initiate backup restore operations that recover collections in a synchronous manner, dramatically reducing downtime for multi-collection deployments such as multi-tenant application architectures or Sitecore CMS.

• Initiate restores from the dashboard – Feature Documentation – or explore using SearchStax automation APIs in your deployment pipelines – API Documentation