Is this happening because I have set replicationFactor=1? So even if I manually add replica for the shard that's down, it will just create a dataDir but would not copy any of the data into the dataDir?
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Chetas Joshi <chetas.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just started experimenting with solr cloud. > > I have a solr cloud of 20 nodes. I have one collection with 18 shards > running on 18 different nodes with replication factor=1. > > When one of my shards goes down, I create a replica using the Solr UI. On > HDFS I see a core getting added. But the data (index table and tlog) > information does not get copied over to that directory. For example, on > HDFS I have > > /solr/collection/core_node_1/data/index > /solr/collection/core_node_1/data/tlog > > when I create a replica of a shard, it creates > > /solr/collection/core_node_19/data/index > /solr/collection/core_node_19/data/tlog > > (core_node_19 as I already have 18 shards for the collection). The issue > is both my folders core_node_19/data/index and core_node_19/data/tlog are > empty. Data does not get copied over from core_node_1/data/index and > core_node_1/data/tlog. > > I need to remove core_node_1 and just keep core_node_19 (the replica). Why > the data is not getting copied over? Do I need to manually move all the > data from one folder to the other? > > Thank you, > Chetas. > >