On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:43:38 -0700 Amit Nithian <anith...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this is the best approach to this problem but I > was curious if a single solr server could be both a master and a > slave without causing index corruption? It seems that you could > setup multiple replication handlers in the SOLR > config, /replication /replication2 and have one be master and > another be a slave syncing from another server. Here's why: 1) I > want to build an index using data stored in our own local > datacenter generated using M/R and our MySQL DB 2) This index > would be synced with a Solr Master sitting in EC2 3) Series of > EC2 solr slaves replicate from EC2 Solr master for scaling > purposes. [...] Have you taken a look at the replication page on the Solr Wiki? A repeater seems to address exactly your use case: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication#Setting_up_a_Repeater Regards, Gora