How to dump/backup a Solr index to a file?

Question

I\'m running a Virtual Private Server where, every day at midnight, all files are backed up automatically by the VPS provider.

So I need to exp

Answer 1

Please see my other answer about taking hot backups using Solr's ReplicationHandler. You can just wget a URL and Solr will safely snapshot your data directory. I would not take a snapshot using cp.