Thanks, I didn't think of moving the shards. Should have been faster as well.
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 09:03:44 UTC+2, Boaz Leskes wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > The fix option of check_on_startup checks indices and removes the > *segments* that are corrupted, this is a lucene level operation and is > primarily meant to be used in extreme cases where you only had one copy of > shards and those got corrupted. > > In your cases, since the primaries are good, the easiest would be to use > the reroute API to tell elasticsearch to move the replicas that have been > corrupted to another node. When moving replicas, ES actually makes a new > copy of the primary as it protects against exactly these kinds of > situations: > http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-reroute.html#cluster-reroute > > Cheers, > Boaz > > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:23:56 AM UTC+2, Michael Salmon wrote: >> >> I had a problem with corrupted shards so I restarted my cluster with >> "index.shard.check_on_startup: fix" and the corrupted shards were fixed >> (i.e. deleted). Unfortunately the replicas and primaries then had differing >> numbers of documents despite them all being green. Fortunately the >> primaries always had more than the replicas so that I hopefully haven't >> lost anything. >> >> To fix this I set the number of replicas to 0 then 1 on all the indices >> that had mismatches. Is there a better technique? I really didn't like >> having just one copy of my data even if it was for a short time. >> >> I am still running 1.1.1, is this addressed by a later release? >> >> /Michael >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/56613bd4-e5df-4e50-902d-d5274a2bcdfc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
