Hi Koha community, I am new to Koha and have spent the last week with trying to feed the Zebra index with our bibliographic records. This turned out to be pretty difficult. I have successfully imported our records (about 600.000) to the Koha database. Then I tried to use rebuild_zebra.pl to put the records into the index. This failed due to disk space reasons: I have 100 GB disk space reserved for the Zebra index (mounted on /var/lib/koha) and have split this space in zebra config into 45 GB for the shadow directory and 45 GB for the register directory. This was not sufficient, which I think is a little bit weired, because I think 600.000 records should not take so much space... So, my first question: is that normal? Does Zebra need so much disk space for the index? What are the directories register and shadow exactly for? Next try was indexing with rebuild_zebra_sliced.sh. I used the default value of 10000 for the chunks. First I got an error, I guess because a configuration value was not set properly (the script did not find index_mode; so I set it manually to "dom", which I guessed should be the correct value for indexing marcxml). After fixing that manually, I succeeded to split my export file into 59 10000-record-chunks. I tried to index the first two chunks and that seemed to work without problems for the first chunk (but it finished very fast, which made me wonder if Koha really did something - I just realized, that the marcxml file was not valid - but why didn't I get an error?). For the second chunk, there were two messages (unfortunaltely I cannot recall them). This is the command I used to do that: zebraidx -c /etc/koha/sites/koha/zebra-biblios.cfg -v none,fatal,warn -g marcxml -d biblios update /tmp/rebuild/export/biblio/exported_records_1000001 But now, when I search in the Koha opac for an "e" for example, I still get no results. Though the index seems to be empty, but actually there are files in /var/lib/koha/koha/biblio/shadow. Is there a way to look into the Zebra index directly? I have no idea where to look next. Does anybody have any hint about that? Any help would be appreciated. Best -Oliver -- Oliver Goldschmidt TU Hamburg-Harburg / Universitätsbibliothek / Digitale Dienste Denickestr. 22 21071 Hamburg - Harburg Tel. +49 (0)40 / 428 78 - 32 91 eMail o.goldschmidt@tuhh.de -- GPG/PGP-Schlüssel: http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/keys/Oliver_Marahrens_pub.asc