[Archivesspace_Users_Group] re-indexing procedure

[Brian Hoffman]

Hi Doug,

indexer_state is how the indexer keeps track of what it has and hasn’t indexed. Deleting that will effectively make the indexer believe nothing is indexed.

solr_index is the actual index, so if you delete that nothing will be searchable. If you delete it but don’t delete indexer_state, the indexer will continue to believe everything is indexed.

Brian


> On Dec 3, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Douglas James Simmons <dsimmons at siu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> https://github.com/hudmol/archivesspace
> states:
> "To force ArchivesSpace to reindex all records, just delete the directory /path/to/archivesspace/data/indexer_state."
> 
> Chris said:
> "You probably need to rebuild your index from scratch. Delete your index and your indexer_state files."
> I take this to mean deleting solr_index/index and indexer_state/*
> 
> Is one of these more correct than the other?
> 
> This came up because of Matt looking for a way to resolve the "not found" collection entries. Apparently, what I did yesterday was just completely wrong. Instead of doing either of the above, without referring to docs I deleted only solr_index/index . Upon restarting and waiting overnight, I now have NO records left, only the repositories show up now. Whoops...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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