Is Index Recovery useful for Jira Data Center installations?

[Mike Diehn]

Before we adopted data center Jira, I used index recoveries occasionally; they were much faster than even background rebuilds. Today I ran a full-rebuild of the index in our data center Jira; it took 4,252 seconds, which is about an hour and ten minutes. While I was in there, I saw the index snapshot settings and I realized I hadn't used one since adopting DC and wondered if they have any use anymore.

Has anyone out there thought about this? Are index snapshots still useful in a data center installation? I suppose getting even a partial index back in service in a few minutes instead of 4,200 seconds has some worth.

Thanks!
Mike

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Mike Diehn
Siemens PLM Software
CD-adapco