Mike Klaas wrote:
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> On 15-Jun-07, at 4:25 AM, Roopesh P Raj wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to solr, lucene. In my project I want to copy index
>> directory based on some query (copy may not copy the whole index
>> directory). I came across a backup script in solr/bin folder but it
>> seems to be copying the whole index directory.
>>
>> My query is, what is the procedure for copying a part of the index.
>> Is it like - do a query, get all the fields, make a new index with
>> those queried results? Or is there any other way ?
>
> You can't easily copy parts of the physical file. I suggest
> performing the query, fetching some unique key (application-specific),
> and re-indexing those documents from your original source. It can be
> done through Solr too, but you have to be careful to store all the
> relevant fields to being with.
Thanks for the reply. I have one more query. My doubt is where to
re-index (location of the index directory) ? For this should I run
another instance of solr? Is this the preferred approach ?
Roopesh
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