Turns out I already created a JIRA in 4.0-alpha...

SOLR-3397

Added comments here to that JIRA.

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/23/2013 2:06 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
>>
>> Let's say a configuration is running SolrCloud _and_ has <lst
>> name="master"> or  <lst name="slave"> bits defined in the replication
>> handler. Is it valid? Taken care of? Is it worth a JIRA to barf if we
>> detect that condition?
>>
>> Because it strikes me as something that's at worst undefined behavior,
>> at best ignored and somewhere in the middle does replications as well
>> as peer synchs as well as distributed updates.
>>
>> Under any circumstances it doesn't seem like the user is doing the right
>> thing.
>
>
> Initial thought: Yes, detect and explode.
>
> Second thought: Allowing replication config for the expert user (possibly
> for backup purposes) might be useful.
>
> Third thought: Yes, detect and explode.  If someone wanted to write an
> application that used the handler as a direct API rather than through
> solrconfig.xml configuration, that would work with no problem. SolrCloud
> basically requires that the /replication handler be enabled, but not
> configured.
>
> Is the replication API fully documented anywhere?  It might be nice to
> provide a skeletal example java application that talks to the replication
> API for simple index backup purposes.  It would be particularly nice if it
> used CloudSolrServer (or the ZK client classes) and showed how to back up
> and restore multiple shards.  If I had any idea how to write such an
> application, I would have already gotten started on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
>
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