Thank you very much Erick. You described almost for word what I thought about doing. I just wasn't sure about how "drinkable" a cocktail made out of embedded and the external zookeeper. I was worried I'd get a severe hangover :-)
I will give it a try and give an update. Rachid. On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmmm, I don't think anyone's really documented this as the > supposition is that one would only run embedded for sandboxes > and set up an external ensemble "for real". > > So, with the caveat that I haven't personally tried this, I'd > add external zookeepers as part of an ensemble that > contained my embedded zookeepers. That means your ZK > configurations pointing to your embedded ZK instances. At > that point the external ZK _should_ replicate the data from the > embedded instances to the external ones. > > Then shut down all your Solrs and change your external > ensemble configurations to only point to each other (i.e. > take the embedded stuff out). Now start your solrs pointing > to the external ensemble. > > As I said, though, I haven't personally done this so > go ahead and give it a try. > > Or, if you're feeling _really_ brave, just copy the zookeeper data > directory from the place the embedded Zookeeper put it to the place > you specify in your external ensemble then start your external > ensemble. > > Theoretically, this should work bu tas I said I haven't tried either of > these personally. > > Best, > Erick > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Rachid Bouacheria <willi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running solr 4.x on 3 servers with zookeper embedded in prod. > > > > Each servers has 1 leader and 2 replicas. > > > > I want to switch zookeper from embedded to standalone. > > > > I want to know if the steps are documented anywhere? I could not find > them. > > > > I am worried my index will get messed up if in the transition. > > > > Thank you very much! >
