... and thx Houston and other participants to this thread.

I have just restored the backup, and it works fine. The only point is that I 
had to create the collection before restoring (I had dropped it). I wonder if I 
have to recreate the collection with the same number of shards... ?

On 2022/02/05 16:55:26 Eric Charles wrote:
> I have faced similar questions to get it working. I have first opened an 
> issue on the solr-operator https://github.com/apache/solr-operator/issues/404 
> and then was able to replicate the issue on my laptop, so came to the 
> conclusion the issue was at solr level, and not solr-operator.
> 
> Without Sergio reply, I would not have been able to make sense of the 
> parameters and get is working. Thx!
> 
> On 2022/01/27 14:01:46 Sergio García Maroto wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Correct. Using "location=backupfolder"  didn't work for me.
> > 
> > The only way I made it work is with location=s3:/
> > Below my sample url which works well.
> > http://servername:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=BACKUP&name=personbackup&collection=person&repository=s3&location=s3:/
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 17:23, Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks for all of the information everybody. I want to determine if this 
> > > is
> > > actually a bug before we release 9.0
> > >
> > > First, I want to clear up the usage of the "location" parameter:
> > >
> > >    - It is required, but you can provide "/" as an "empty" directory, much
> > >    like "s3:/".
> > >    - You don't have to include "s3:/" or "s3://". You can you "/dir",
> > >    "dir", "s3:/dir" or "s3://dir". All of these options will eventually be
> > >    converted to the "dir/" directory in your bucket.
> > >    - The s3 repository does not allow for directory names starting with
> > >    "/". In general this is to allow all of the above ^ examples to compute
> > > to
> > >    the same thing without users being confused how many '/'s they need
> > > after
> > >    "s3:". Now I see that this may have contributed to the confusion, but 
> > > we
> > >    can always improve the documentation in the ref-guide.
> > >
> > > Now with these points cleared up, you said that you were unable to use the
> > > collections API calls with "location=backupfolder" did not work, even
> > > though you had a directory in your bucket named "backupfolder". Just to be
> > > clear, in S3 the folder did not have a "/" prefix correct? If so, this is
> > > indeed a bug and something that we should fix. I'll do more thorough
> > > testing once you confirm that the directory is following the expectation.
> > >
> > > - Houston
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 3:32 AM Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 1/22/2022 12:38 AM, Sergio García Maroto wrote:
> > > > > The only difference I can see i am using  collection API trying to
> > > backup
> > > > > solr cloud collection.
> > > >
> > > > That could do it.  I have done very little with SolrCloud beyond
> > > > occasionally firing up the cloud example.
> > > >
> > > > The Collections API backup is most likely a different code path than the
> > > > replication handler backup.  I wonder if the behavior you're seeing
> > > > would be considered a bug.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Shawn
> > > >
> > >
> > 
> 

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