Why are you not using the built-in replication? That works fine. You do not need to invent anything.
wunder On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Rohit Harchandani wrote: > Hi All, > I am new to Solr and would really appreciate some help on this issue. > I have a single core setup currently and have separate instances for > querying and indexing. These two instances point to different data > directories through symbolic links since I do not want it to affect the > "live" searching instance. > Once the indexing is done, I swap the directories to which the symbolic > links point, so that the "live" searching instance now points to the > directory where the new data was indexed. But this does not seem to work, > without restarting solr. > I guess my purpose can probably be acheived using multiple cores and > SWAP(?), but wanted to know if there is a way to do this with a single > core? Is there some command needed once the directories are swapped? > I see in the core description, that the "directory" entry under "index" did > not change after updating the symlinks. > > (org.apache.lucene.store.MMapDirectory:org.apache.lucene.store.MMapDirectory@/bb/mbigd/mbig2580/srchSolr/apache-solr-4.0.0-ALPHA/example/solr/data/index > lockFactory=org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLockFactory@2447e380) > > Is there a way to update this dynamically? Thanks a lot > > Regards, > Rohit Harchandani
