Thank you for all your thoughts on this - I think we will go the route of having two copies for each index, a working copy and the one the searchers use. If we start off indexing like this it shouldn't be too hard to keep them in sync.
Thanks again, Marc ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org; Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 12 May, 2006 7:41:33 PM Subject: Re: Backing up indexes, reliability and robustness : As for backing up, you could try making a backup using IndexWriter's : addIndexes method, and I imagine hard-links would work, too. Hardlinks do in fact work quite well. This is how the Solr backup scripts work... http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/solr/trunk/src/scripts/backup -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
