I can't see a way, if the slave is on another server. We're going to upgrade solr - as you can delete the index after unloading a core in this way:
cores?action=UNLOAD&core=liveCore&deleteIndex=true From v3.3 (I think) On 21 Dec 2011, at 16:11, Dean Pullen wrote: > Thought as much, thanks for the reply. > > Is there an easy way of dropping the index on the slave, or do I have to > manually delta the index files? > > Regards, > > Dean. > > > > On 21 Dec 2011, at 15:54, Erick Erickson wrote: > >> You've probably hit it on the head. The slave version is greater than the >> master >> version, so replication isn't "necessary". BTW, the version starts >> life as a timestamp, >> but then is simply incremented on successive commits, which accounts for >> what you are seeing. >> >> You should be able to blow the index away on the slave and wait for >> replication >> and go from there. >> >> Another possibility: How much faith do you have in your slave index? >> If it's all good, >> you could simply copy *that* to the master manually and go from there. >> >> If you're rebuilding your entire index, just blow the master index >> away, re-index from >> scratch and that should work too (be sure to disable replication >> during the rebuild >> unless you want a partial index on the slave). >> >> Although copying the files *then* deciding not to use them doesn't seem like >> a good thing. Not sure if 3.x has the same behavior or not... >> >> Best >> Erick >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Dean Pullen <dean.pul...@semantico.com> >> wrote: >>> E.g. I see this in the slave logs: >>> >>> 2011-12-21 15:45:27,635 INFO handler.SnapPuller:265 - Master's version: >>> 1271406570655, generation: 376 >>> 2011-12-21 15:45:27,635 INFO handler.SnapPuller:266 - Slave's version: >>> 1271406571565, generation: 1286 >>> 2011-12-21 15:45:27,636 INFO handler.SnapPuller:267 - Starting replication >>> process >>> 2011-12-21 15:45:27,639 INFO handler.SnapPuller:270 - Number of files in >>> latest index in master: 9 >>> … >>> 2011-12-21 15:45:50,997 INFO handler.SnapPuller:286 - Total time taken for >>> download : 23 secs >>> 2011-12-21 15:45:51,050 INFO handler.SnapPuller:586 - New index installed. >>> Updating index properties… >>> >>> Yet the index doesn't change! >>> >>> >>> On 21 Dec 2011, at 15:37, Dean Pullen wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I have an odd problem locally when attempting replication with solr 1.4 >>>> >>>> The problem is, though the master files get copied to a temp directory in >>>> the slave data directory (I see this happen at runtime), they are then not >>>> copied over the actual slave index data. >>>> >>>> We were wondering if it was due to the index version of the restored >>>> master data being behind the slave index version after a restore? Any >>>> other ideas would be appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Dean Pullen >>> >
