On 12/21/2013 11:58 AM, Zahoor Mohamed wrote: > I want to do this without bringing production down... > by using collection aliases > > - Create a new index in production with date as collection name > - once done change the alias to point to the new collection > - remove/unload the old collection
This is a good way to operate. It is one of the primary reasons that the alias feature exists. Thanks, Shawn