Re: Index version on slave incrementing to higher than master

2012-07-16 Thread Andrew Davidoff
Thanks Erick, I will look harder at our current configuration and how we're handling config replication, but I just realized that a backup script was doing a commit and an optimize on the slave prior to taking the backup. This happens daily, after updates and replication from the master. This is s

Re: Index version on slave incrementing to higher than master

2012-07-16 Thread Erick Erickson
Andrew: I'm not entirely sure that's your problem, but it's the first thing I'd try. As for your config files, see the section "Replicating solrconfig.xml" here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication. That at least allows you to centralize separate solrconfigs for master and slave, maki

Re: Index version on slave incrementing to higher than master

2012-07-15 Thread Andrew Davidoff
Erick, Thank you. I think originally my thought was that if I had my slave configuration really close to my master config, it would be very easy to promote a slave to a master (and vice versa) if necessary. But I think you are correct that ripping out from the slave config anything that would modi

Re: Index version on slave incrementing to higher than master

2012-07-14 Thread Erick Erickson
Gotta admit it's a bit puzzling, and surely you want to move to the 3x versions .. But at a guess, things might be getting confused on the slaves given you have a merge policy on them. There's no reason to have any policies on the slaves; slaves should just be about copying the files from the mast