RE: Basic conceptual questions about solr

2010-08-20 Thread Shaun McArthur
Very useful - thanks very much. I'll have a look at DIH too. Best, Shaun -Original Message- From: Jan Høydahl / Cominvent [mailto:jan@cominvent.com] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:02 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Basic conceptual questions about sol

Re: Basic conceptual questions about solr

2010-08-19 Thread Jan Høydahl / Cominvent
Hi, You can place Solr wherever you want, but if your data is veery large, you'd want dedicated box. Have a look at DIH (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler). It can both crawl a file share periodically, indexing only files changed since a timestamp (can be e.g. NOW-1HOUR) and extrac

Basic conceptual questions about solr

2010-08-19 Thread Shaun McArthur
I'm looking for a Google search appliance look-a-like. We have a file share with 1000's of documents in a hierarchy that makes it ridiculously difficult to locate documents. Here are some basic questions: Is the idea to install Solr on separate hardware and have it crawl the file system? Can c