Hi Christine, On 1/30/08, Mueller, Christine, DCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Environment: Koha 3 Alpha / Ubuntu 7.1.0 / Zebra 2.0.26 / Mac-Tel Hardware / > MARC21 > > No experience with Koha 2.x; our goal is to become familiar with Koha while > waiting for Koha 3 Beta Good plan :-)
> Problems with Zebra Indexing: > > > > 1) When biblio and biblioitem deleted from database data remained in > Zebra indexes and search results displayed link to biblio which was no > longer in database, even after indexes rebuilt. – How to prevent? Could you clarify how you deleted data from the database? Did you use the API, or directly query the RDBMS? Do you have the zebraqueue daemon running? > > > 2) Sometimes new biblios would not be indexed for 20-30 minutes and > other times Zebra indexes would need to be rebuilt to force indexing of new > biblios. – Any suggestions for solving delayed indexing problem? Do you have the zebraqueue daemon running? > 3) When Zebra server is restarted Zebra directories are missing and > must be restored. – How can server be restarted without deleting > directories? Hmm ... that's very strange ... which make target did you use? standard, dev? > 4) Today searching no longer works at all. Zebra server was restarted, > missing directories were restored and indexes were rebuilt. Biblios and > biblioitems are still in the database. – Any suggestions for restoring > search function *without* reinstalling Zebra? i think we need to figure out why your zebra directories are disappearing ... > 5) If we want to export the biblios and biblioitems (less than 25 at > this time) in the database to create a backup file in case we need to do a > total reinstall of Koha and Zebra are there any "gotchas" or best practices? The MARC data is stored as a blob in biblioitems, so you could just mysqldump that table ... there are also some utilities in the interface in Tools -> Export Bibliographic and Holdings Data; as well as some command line tools that do the same thing in misc/ directory. So ... we need to figure out why your zebra configuration isn't working well, could you tell us a bit more about your environment? Also, I'd suggest we take this discussion to the koha-devel list where more of the technical questions tend to get hashed out (I've CCed your question to that list). Here's the list info: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
