Hi Upayavira, this is a good start for solving my problem, can you please tell how does such a replication URL look like? Thanks, Tommaso
2010/12/1 Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> > Hi Tommaso, > > I believe you can tell each server to act as a master (which means it > can have its indexes pulled from it). > > You can then include the master hostname in the URL that triggers a > replication process. Thus, if you triggered replication from outside > solr, you'd have control over which master you pull from. > > Does this answer your question? > > Upayavira > > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:18 -0800, "Ken Krugler" > <kkrugler_li...@transpac.com> wrote: > > Hi Tommaso, > > > > On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:41am, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > in a replication environment if the host where the master is running > > > goes > > > down for some reason, is there a way to communicate to the slaves to > > > point > > > to a different (backup) master without manually changing > > > configuration (and > > > restarting the slaves or their cores)? > > > > > > Basically I'd like to be able to change the replication master > > > dinamically > > > inside the slaves. > > > > > > Do you have any idea of how this could be achieved? > > > > One common approach is to use VIP (virtual IP) support provided by > > load balancers. > > > > Your slaves are configured to use a VIP to talk to the master, so that > > it's easy to dynamically change which master they use, via updates to > > the load balancer config. > > > > -- Ken > > > > -------------------------- > > Ken Krugler > > +1 530-210-6378 > > http://bixolabs.com > > e l a s t i c w e b m i n i n g > > > > > > > > > > > > >
