Logan, My guess is you'll get more help if you post your question to the Lucene.Net mailing list (and whose address I don't recall off the top of my head).
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: chaiguy1337 <lo...@electricstorm.com> > To: general@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 7:12:24 PM > Subject: Synchronization and merging indexes > > > Hi. I'm currently using Lucene.Net as the backing store for a client Windows > app and it's working great, however I'm now looking at making this an > occasionally-connected remote-synchronized store. > > In other words, I want to use one of the free online storage APIs out there > that my users can subscribe to and provide login credentials, and use it to > back up entire copies of the index (we're talking relatively small indexes > here). > > The scenario should allow for multiple clients to be simultaneously > modifying their local copies of the index, and therefore I will need to > merge the indexes to allow for multiple sources of change. > > My question is first of all if anyone has any experience with this, just for > some advice, but in particular I'm concerned with the merging process--does > merging two indexes simply concatenate all documents in each, even if they > are identical, or is there some kind of logic performed to union duplicates? > If not, how should I go about doing that manually in an efficient way? > > I'm not terribly worried about conflicts or collisions--in the worst case I > can simply duplicate the document, but I don't want duplicate copies of > documents created when there is no conflict. > > Thanks for any advice. > > Logan > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Synchronization-and-merging-indexes-tp21110690p21110690.html > Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
