We just went through this process. We simply copied the 1.2 index to the
new server (while the 1.2 server was live---responding to requests and
handling updates) and started it up with 1.3. It worked. I can't promise
that you'll have the same experience, but it's worth a try. Also, if I were
yo
Backup or snapshot taken by hard links are save to copy since once Lucene
creates an index file, it will not be modified.
>From the 1.3.0 release notes:
The Porter snowball based stemmers in Lucene were updated (LUCENE-1142),
and are not guaranteed to be backward compatible at the index level
(th
Ok, I think I jumped the gun here. I'm not sure on this so I'll let someone
who knows more comment on this.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Michael Tedesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
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>> I just want to copy o
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Michael Tedesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> I just want to copy over my indexes from my production server running 1.2
> to another test server running 1.3. Since my Index are live I can't just
> stop the it. I also have 5 GB of indexes so I do not know how long
