If you are using a nightly you can try the new SolrReplication feature http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:32 AM, William Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otis, > > Yes, I had forgotten that Windows will not permit me to overwrite files > currently in use. So my copy scripts are failing. Windows will not even > allow a rename of a folder containing a file in use so I am not sure how to > do this.... > > I am going to dig around and see what I can come up with short of > stopping/restarting tomcat... > > Thanks, > - Bill > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Otis Gospodnetic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:30 PM > To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Advice needed on master-slave configuration > >> Normally you don't have to start Q, but only "reload" Solr searcher when >> the index has been copied. >> However, you are on Windows, and its FS has the tendency not to let you >> delete/overwrite files that another app (Solr/java) has opened. Are you >> able to copy the index from U to Q? How are you doing it? Are you deleting >> index files from the index dir on Q that are no longer in the index dir on >> U? >> >> >> Otis >> -- >> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >>> >>> From: William Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:24:28 PM >>> Subject: Advice needed on master-slave configuration >>> >>> Folks: >>> >>> I have two instances of solr running one on the master (U) and the other >>> on >>> the slave (Q). Q is used for queries only, while U is where >>> updates/deletes >>> are done. I am running on Windows so unfortunately I cannot use the >>> distribution scripts. >>> >>> Every N hours when changes are committed and the index on U is updated, I >>> want to copy the files from the master to the slave. Do I need to halt >>> the solr server on Q while the index is being updated? If not, how do I >>> copy the files into the data folder while the server is running? Any >>> pointers would be greatly appreciated! >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> - Bill >> >> > -- --Noble Paul
