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Specifying the Lucene backup directory

This section describes how to specify the Lucene backup directory.

You can set the Lucene backup directory using the following two ways: by editing the SkyVault-global.properties file or by using a JMX client, such as JConsole.

Specifying Lucene backup directory via SkyVault-global.properties file

This task shows how to specify the Lucene backup directory via SkyVault-global.properties file.
To set the Lucene backup directory and schedule, using the SkyVault-global.properties file, set the  value of the following properties to the relevant cron expression and the full path where the backups should be kept:

index.backup.cronExpression=0 0 3 * * ?
dir.indexes.backup=${dir.root}/backup-lucene-indexes

Specifying Lucene backup directory via JMX client

You can use the JMX client, JConsole to specify the backup directory for Lucene indexes.
To use JMX client to setup Lucene backup directory, navigate to MBeans tab > SkyVault > Configuration > Search > managed > lucene > Attributes and change the values for index.backup.cronExpression and dir.indexes.backup properties.