As I go back through https://solr.apache.org/guide/6_6/index-replication.html, the picture is filling in a little more. My guess the tmp dir referenced, is the index.<timestamp> dir.
Very interested in cases that might generate a full replication. To my knowledge no optimize commands has been issued against the core in question. On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:38 PM mtn search <search...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I am learning more about replication as I maintain a large Solr 6 > set of Solr servers configured for Master/Slave. > > I noticed during some replication activities in addition to the original > index dir under the core name on the file system is a dir named "index" > with a timestamp. index.<timestamp>. Files are written to this dir with > the timestamp during replication. I am interested in how this works: > > For every core replicating to it's master is this timestamped dir > created? > > Or is this timestamped dir created/used for only special circumstances? > If so, what? > > - Are there cases that cause a full replication within Solr 6? > > Is the original index dir removed and the time stamped dir renamed to > "index" after replication? > > I initially figured all replication activities happened within the index > dir, but that does not appear to be the case. > > Any tips, or documentation references would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Matt >