We had a (short) thread on this late last week. Solr doesn't support automatic failover of the master, at least in 1.4.1. I've been discussing with my colleague (Tommaso) about ways to achieve this.
There's ways we could 'fake it', scripting the following: * set up a 'backup' master, as a replica of the actual master * monitor the master for 'up-ness' * if it fails: * tell the master to start indexing to the backup instead * tell the slave(s) to connect to a different master (the backup) * then, when the master is back: * wipe its index (backing up dir first?) * configure it to be a backup of the new master * make it pull a fresh index over But, Jan Høydahl suggested using SolrCloud. I'm going to follow up on how that might work in that thread. Upayavira On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:20 -0800, "Tri Nguyen" <tringuye...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In the master-slave configuration, I'm trying to figure out how to > configure the > system setup for master failover. > > Does solr support master-master setup? From my readings, solr does not. > > I've read about repeaters as well where the slave can act as a master. > When the > main master goes down, do the other slaves switch to the repeater? > > Barring better solutions, I'm thinking about putting 2 masters behind a > load > balancer. > > If this is not implemented already, perhaps solr can be updated to > support a > list of masters for fault tolerance. > > Tri
