Re: replication question

2008-12-16 Thread Michael McCandless
It's better to use SnapshotDeletionPolicy to grab a consistent image of the index. You don't need to close the IndexWriter, nor stop making changes through IndexWriter, and it lets you capture a given segments_N (and all index files it needs) and then take your time making a copy/backup/

Re: replication question

2008-12-16 Thread Michael Stoppelman
Hi Yonik, Thanks for the response. reply inline. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Michael Stoppelman > wrote: > > I've got a question from Doug's original email about replication ( > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-u...@jakarta.apach

Re: replication question

2008-12-16 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Michael Stoppelman wrote: > I've got a question from Doug's original email about replication ( > http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-u...@jakarta.apache.org/msg12709.html): > > "1. On the index master, periodically checkpoint the index. Every minute or > so the Inde