[Exist-open] Backup, restore, reindex

[Dai, T. <td...@lo...>]

Hi Everybody,


    I had asked this question


https://sourceforge.net/p/exist/mailman/message/37177206/


and then the holidays happened.


I went and looked at my question and didn't fully explain what I'm trying to do. We are are having a searching diacritics issue that I would like wrapped up in automated backup and restore solution.


What we are doing currently:

On our dev server, we are using the StandardAnalyzer and a homegrown analyzer to index the fields so that we can search with and with out the diacritics for various fields. The content is dumped and restored onto our staging server BUT we lose the ability to search with diacritics.


What we would like to happen:

We would be able to restore in an automated fashion to the staging server so that the searching can be done with and with the diacritics.


What I have thought of:

- Can we dump the dev index as part of the backup and restore onto stage?

- Can we modify the collections.xconf files so that the content is indexed with both the StandardAnalyzer and the homegrown analyzer during the restore. Doing a google search says no, but maybe you guys have a way around that.

- Jean-Paul had recommended just a reindex using xmldb:reindex() but I don't have access to the dashboard due to security reasons, so unless there is an api somewhere in 4.1.0 that is a no-go.

- Dannes had eluded to checking the WEB-INF/data for the indexes but I never followed up.


What do you think is my best course of action here.


Thanks,

Tino