Tracking request for Solr index backup

2014-07-24 Thread zzT
One way to get an index backup in Solr is through an HTTP call like this http://localhost:8983/solr/replication?command=backup I have 2 questions regarding this 1) Is there a way to get information on the progress of the backup operation, much like the async param that was introduced in 4.8

Re: SolrCloud : node recovery fails with No registered leader was found

2014-05-22 Thread zzT
I'm using Solr 4.7.2. A few things I've missed follow. Before reaching the one leader-one failed to recover state, the situation was no leader for the shard and both nodes in recovery failed mode. A bit of tinkering to clusterstate.json forced the one to be the leader but that didn't change a

SolrCloud : node recovery fails with No registered leader was found

2014-05-21 Thread zzT
SolrCloud configuration contains a single shard and 2 Solr servers, therefore one acts as a leader and one as a replica. Through a series of events(*) I've ended up with one Solr server being in Active status and the leader of the shard while the other one in Recovery failed status which cannot

SolrCloud load balancing during heavy indexing

2014-04-25 Thread zzT
Hi all, In SolrCloud all nodes are equal in the sense that they can perform indexing as well as searching. Let's say a leader node is busy performing heavy-indexing, I wouldn't like to also send search requests to that node. As far as I can tell from CloudSolrServer source code, all it does when

Re: SolrCloud load balancing during heavy indexing

2014-04-25 Thread zzT
Erick Erickson wrote Back up, you're misunderstanding the update process. A leader node distributes the update to every replica. So _all_ your nodes in a slice are indexing when _any_ of them index. So the idea of sending queries to just the replicas to avoid performance problems isn't

RE: Where to specify numShards when startup up a cloud setup

2014-04-02 Thread zzT
It seems that I've figured out a configuration approach to this issue. I'm having the exact same issue and the only viable solutions found on the net till now are 1) Pass -DnumShards=x when starting up Solr server 2) Use the Collections API as indicated by Shawn. What I've noticed though - after