On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Question: > Can one add the Solr master-like replication handler (but not call it > /replication, yes) to SolrCloud nodes and point additional slave-like > servers (i.e. servers that are not in the SolrCloud cluster) to that? > > More info: > I have a 4-node SolrCloud cluster and would like to add 2 more servers to > the picture -- not as members of the cluster, but as slaves that replicate > the collection from some SolrCloud nodes periodically. In effect, a hybrid > Cloud-Master-Slave setup. :) Yeah, theoretically it should work, but I've never tested it to see if there is a hitch. > > Reason: > I have some heavy machine-triggered queries that I want to separate from > lighter human-entered queries.... It looks like I cannot increase the > replication factor for the collection because the collection was created > via the API, not via solr.xml, so I can't easily reconfigure the > collection. You could just use the CoreAdmin API to create new replicas on whatever nodes. - Mark