Hi, You could accomplish this by using symlinks or their equivalents if you are not running Solr under UNIX.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: mahendra mahendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:46:04 PM > Subject: Changing dataDir without restatrting server > > Is there any way to change the index location with out restarting the server? > > Requirement > We want to share the index location by multiple search nodes. As part of my > project maintanance we want to shift the current index location to other > location and delete the current index location for every week. Is this > possible > to change the index location without restarting the server. The index > location > will be reading from some properties file.. > > Example > We have two index locations called IndexA, IndexB. Presume currently my > configuration is pointing to IndexA, after a week we are going to have fresh > data in indexB and point the current index location to IndexB and remove the > IndexA. The same thing will happen in reverse case for other week. > > Any help would be appreciate!! > > > Thanks & Regards, > Mahendra