Figured it out !! I actually created two folders in solr.home/data folder, each holding the index for a given core. So for core0 and core1 i had indexes as:
solr.home/data/core0/index solr.home/data/core1/index Feeling a little stupid now, having figured out a simple issue :s muneeb wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I am new to Solr, and still trying to get my hands on it. > I have indexed over 6 million documents and currently have a single large > index. I update my index using SolrJ client due to the format I store my > documents (i.e. JSON blobs) in database. > > I need to find a way to have multiple indexes for one solr instance. One > for ongoing query search and one for updating index with new > documents/schema etc. the idea is to switch between indexes while one is > being updated. So that users could still search my index. > > I know Solr supports multiple cores and I have read wiki pages plus > mailing lists on this, which help alot. However I am still confused with > the need of having two separate indexes. I have solr.xml in solr.home dir > with two dirs for each core and each core has conf folder copied from > standard solr.home folder. > > Do i need data folder in each core's directory? and Should i copy/paste > the index folder in each core's directory? > > Thanks for your help in advance!! > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/need-help-with-Solr-Cores-tp27767694p27769171.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.