Tracking request for Solr index backup

2014-07-24 Thread zzT
One way to get an index backup in Solr is through an HTTP call like this http://localhost:8983/solr/replication?command=backup I have 2 questions regarding this 1) Is there a way to get information on the progress of the backup operation, much like the async param that was introduced in 4.8 (

Re: SolrCloud : node recovery fails with "No registered leader was found"

2014-05-22 Thread zzT
I'm using Solr 4.7.2. A few things I've missed follow. Before reaching the "one leader-one failed to recover" state, the situation was no leader for the shard and both nodes in "recovery failed" mode. A bit of tinkering to clusterstate.json "forced" the one to be the leader but that didn't change

SolrCloud : node recovery fails with "No registered leader was found"

2014-05-21 Thread zzT
SolrCloud configuration contains a single shard and 2 Solr servers, therefore one acts as a leader and one as a replica. Through a series of events(*) I've ended up with one Solr server being in "Active" status and the leader of the shard while the other one in "Recovery failed" status which canno

Re: SolrCloud load balancing during heavy indexing

2014-04-25 Thread zzT
Erick Erickson wrote > Back up, you're misunderstanding the update process. A leader node > distributes the update to every replica. So _all_ your nodes in a > slice are indexing when _any_ of them index. So the idea of sending > queries to just the replicas to avoid performance problems isn't > re

SolrCloud load balancing during heavy indexing

2014-04-25 Thread zzT
Hi all, In SolrCloud all nodes are equal in the sense that they can perform indexing as well as searching. Let's say a leader node is busy performing heavy-indexing, I wouldn't like to also send search requests to that node. As far as I can tell from CloudSolrServer source code, all it does when

RE: Where to specify numShards when startup up a cloud setup

2014-04-02 Thread zzT
It seems that I've figured out a "configuration approach" to this issue. I'm having the exact same issue and the only viable solutions found on the net till now are 1) Pass -DnumShards=x when starting up Solr server 2) Use the Collections API as indicated by Shawn. What I've noticed though - afte