On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : Unfortunately, this is all 5.1 and instructs me to run the 'start from > : scratch' process. > > a) checkout the left nav of any ref guide page webpage which has a link to > "Older Versions of this Guide (PDF)" > > b) i'm not entirely sure i understand what you're asking, but i'm guessing > you mean... > > * you have a fully functional individual instance of Solr, with a single > core > * you only want to run that one single instance of the Solr process > * you want tha single solr process to be a "SolrCould" of one "node", but > replace your single "core" with a collection that is divided into 8 > shards. > * presumably: you don't care about replication since you are only trying > to run one node. > > what you want to look into (in the 4.10 ref guide) is how to "bootstrap" a > SolrCloud instance from a non-SolrCloud node -- ie: startup zk, tell solr > to take the configs from your single core and uploda them to zk as a > configset, and register that single core as a collection. > > That should give you a single instance of solrcloud, with a single > collection, consisting of one shard (your original core) > > Then you should be able to use the "SPLITSHARD" command to split your > single shard into 2 shards, and then split them again, etc... (i don't > think you can split directly to 8-sub shards with a single command) > > > > FWIW: unless you no longer have access to the original data, it would > almost certainly be a lot easier to just start with a clean install of > Solr in cloud mode, then create a collection with 8 shards, then re-index > your data.
OK, now I'm good to go. Thanks. > > > > -Hoss > http://www.lucidworks.com/
