1 - Data from both will be available, you've just told ES not to use the
defaults for one index. A replica is not a backup, it's a 1:1 replica so it
will contain the same data as the primary shard.
2 - Not sure, but I don't think so as lucene will try to split things.
Routing is the recommended method for what you want.
3 - Yes, although you are unlikely to have them both on one node unless it
is a single node cluster. What do mean by backup? If you're talking about
replicas instead then the cluster will build a new replica if one dies.

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: [email protected]
web: www.campaignmonitor.com


On 3 April 2014 00:21, Subhadip Bagui <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Mark for the prompt reply, I have some more doubts
>
> 1. Suppose one index is running with 3 shards and 1 replica and other
> index is running with the cluster settings i.e. 5 shards 2 replica then
> total 3+1 or 5+2 shards will be available in cluster? I have installed
> elasticsearch-head plugin but the replica shard is not showing there.
>
> For data distribution, replica shard also keeps other index documents or
> it will be used to keep backup copy of data only.
>
> 2. So documents under same index will be split due to sharding and
> distribute over the shards right ? Can we push all the documents for same
> index in a particular shard? I don't want to use custom routing as then I
> need one field value common for all the documents. How can we find out
> which shard is holding which documents?
>
> 3. If I make one index with 2 shards and no replica and the node in
> cluster holding this 2 shards dies, then will I lose the data, or the data
> will have a copy in cluster level replica? If I have only 1 replica and
> the node holds the replica dies then how the backup will happen?
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