solr-backup

#!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess
import urllib2
import time
import tarfile

#define cores in an array
cores = ['client', 'document', 'milestone', 'person', 'project', 'project_invoice', 'project_note', 'task']

#loop through cores, delete old backup, create new backup
for core in cores:
        #delete old backup
        c = "rm -rf /etc/solr/backups/%s/snapshot.*" % core
        subprocess.call(c, shell=True)
        #create the new backup with an api request
        u = "http://localhost:8983/solr/%s/replication?command=backup&location=/etc/solr/backups/%s/" % (core, core)
        urllib2.urlopen(u)

#sleep for a lil bit to give the above a chance to write to disk
time.sleep(60)

#now tar up the results
t = tarfile.open('/rsync/solr.tar.gz','w:gz')
t.add('/etc/solr/backups')
t.close()