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Indexes location for High availability

bucher0n — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:07:43 GMT

Hi,I am trying to deploy an architecture similar to the following :http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/06192008-high-availability-clustering-with-alfresco on slide 9Do I have to specify a dir.indexes in my alfresco-global.properties file ? The indexes must be located locally, right ?Because, as descr

Re: Indexes location for High availability

luca — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:38:12 GMT

Are you sure the two server doesn't share the same index folder?

Because you have to have two separate folder for indexes for server A and for server B.

Re: Indexes location for High availability

bucher0n — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:34:47 GMT

I got my answer, I have to specify a local folder for each server in dir.indexes.
But the indexes backup is shared (dir.indexes.backup), on a NAS for example.

Looks OK for me, can anyone confirm this?

Cheers

Re: Indexes location for High availability

luca — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:59:06 GMT

If you don't share indexes, I don't think it's a good idea to share indexes.backup.

In my opinion if you want to have separate indexes and it's better to have separate backup. If you want to write the backup directly to a shared drive you can create symbolic link for dir.indexes.backup that point to a backup folder in your shared drive, but one folder for server A and another folder for server B!