thanks for your feedback. we can shutdown both solr servers for the time of the copy-process, and both solr instances run the same version, so we should be ok.
i'll let you know if we encounter any troubles. -robert On Dec 15, 2010, at 18:11 , Shawn Heisey wrote: > On 12/15/2010 10:05 AM, Robert Gründler wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> let's say you have 2 solr Instances, which have both exactly the same >> configuration (schema, solrconfig, etc). >> >> Could it cause any troubles if we import an index from a SQL database on >> solr instance A, and copy the whole >> index to the datadir of solr instance B (both solr instances run on >> different servers) ?. >> >> As far as i can tell, this should work and solr instance B should have the >> exact same index as solr instance A after the copy-process. > > I believe this should work, but I would take a couple of precautions. I'd > stop Solr before putting the new index into place. If you can't have it down > for the entirety of the copy process, then copy it into an adjacent > directory, shut down solr, rename the directories, and restart Solr. > > If the Solr that built the index (specifically, the Lucene that comes with > it) is newer than the one that you are copying to, it won't work. > > If you've checked all that and if you're still having trouble, let us know. > > Shawn >
