We currently take an "incomplete" backup that doesn't include indexes, which means that we need to recreate the indexes before loading the backups. If we took a "complete" backup that included the indexes, then we would just need to trigger the reindex and we would have a fully working Solr instance to work with.
(There may be some downsides to this approach, such as being able to reconfigure the index after the backup is built, but I think the benefits would outweigh the costs.)
We currently take an "incomplete" backup that doesn't include indexes, which means that we need to recreate the indexes before loading the backups. If we took a "complete" backup that included the indexes, then we would just need to trigger the reindex and we would have a fully working Solr instance to work with.
(There may be some downsides to this approach, such as being able to reconfigure the index after the backup is built, but I think the benefits would outweigh the costs.)