Hi, Btw. we tried this, confirmed it works, and may write it up on http://blog.sematext.com .
Thanks Mark. Otis -- Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > >
