strategy for snapshottig Solr data directory on EC2

2010-01-24 Thread athir nuaimi
We are running two Solr servers (master/slave) on EC2 and have the solr home directories on EBS drives that we snapshot every 12 hours. While that will mean that we will lose at most 12 hours of data, I wondered if there was a way I could reduce the window of data loss. With our mysql servers

Re: after migration to solr 1.4, queries always return 0 items

2010-01-24 Thread athir nuaimi
ectory? That's the heart of > the Lucene index there. Look at Solr's admin, it'll tell you the data > directory location it is using, be sure it is set where you think it should > be. > > Erik > > On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:59 AM, athir nuaimi wrote: >

after migration to solr 1.4, queries always return 0 items

2010-01-24 Thread athir nuaimi
We have a working system based on Solr 1.3 that I tried to upgrade to 1.4 with no luck. The new 1.4 Solr server is up and running but always returns 0 results when you query it. It seems to have the correct schema but the number of documents is 0 even though I used a backup of the production d

queries possible during a snapinstall?

2009-11-29 Thread athir nuaimi
I have a master and slave setup for solr. The slave gets updates by using snappuller and then snapinstaller.The installer reports that is takes about 75 seconds to install the new index. During that time, are (web) clients able to do queries to the slave? If not, is that a strategy that

solr stops running periodically

2009-11-15 Thread athir nuaimi
We have 4 machines running solr. On one of the machines, every 2-3 days solr stops running. By that I mean that the java/tomcat process just disappears. If I look at the catalina logs, I see normal log entries and then nothing. There is no shutdown messages like you would normally see i