On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 at 15:42, Mark H. Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 09:41:25AM +0200, Sean Carte wrote: > > On the Slack tech-support channel, Nicholas Woodward reported that he had > > recreated the cores 'by copying the new statistics core into a new Solr > > configset, e.g. statistics-2022, for each previous year and changing the > > schema name in schema.xml. Then after restarting Solr I was able to > import > > all of the old stats CSV files.' > > > > I was about to try this, when I realised I'd made a mistake and imported > > all my sharded statistics into the main core. I'm actually fine with > that, > > unless someone here tells me that that was a terrible thing to do. > > That's actually what the upgrade procedure ought to do, because > sharding was not included when working out the separation of Solr from > the DSpace build (which was required by changes in the packaging of > currently supported Solr versions). There may be a way to make it > work, but the tools that currently come with DSpace will not help. > > Sharding is awaiting some discussion: > > o Does sharding actually help? > > o Consider that we are abusing a feature which was meant for > evenly spreading load across multiple hosts. > > o This could be done much more simply and organically, without > involving DSpace code at all, using Time Routed Aliases, but TRA > requires Solr Cloud, which runs a bit differently. Is the benefit > of sharding (whatever that actually is) worth the trouble to set up > a (possibly degenerate) Cloud? > > -- > Mark H. Wood > Thanks, Mark. That's good to know. And it certainly makes my life easier having everything in a single core. Sean -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/CA%2BxAuhM2B23k%3DTZtd0cG4JQnxPaz96FFi5cTXnFS%3DEbodC4tRA%40mail.gmail.com.
