Hi I'm developing rails project with sunspot solr and configure Solr replication. My environment: rails 3.2.1, ruby 2.1.2, sunspot 2.1.0, Solr 4.1.6.
Why replication: I need more stable system - oftentimes search server goes on maintenance and web application stop working on production. So, I think about how to make 2 identical search servers instead of one, to make system more stable: if one server will be down, other will continue working.
I cannot find any good turtorial with simple, easy to understand and described in details turtorial... I'm trying to set up replication on two servers, but I do not fully understand how replication working inside:
- synchronize data between two servers (is it automatic action?)
- balances search requests between two servers
- when one server suddenly stop working other should become a master (is it automatic action?)
- is there replication features other than listed?