Hi Christine, On 1/30/08, Mueller, Christine, DCA <Christine.Mueller@state.nm.us> wrote:
Environment: Koha 3 Alpha / Ubuntu 7.1.0 / Zebra 2.0.26 / Mac-Tel Hardware / MARC21
No experience with Koha 2.x; our goal is to become familiar with Koha while waiting for Koha 3 Beta
Good plan :-)
Problems with Zebra Indexing:
1) When biblio and biblioitem deleted from database data remained in Zebra indexes and search results displayed link to biblio which was no longer in database, even after indexes rebuilt. – How to prevent? Could you clarify how you deleted data from the database? Did you use the API, or directly query the RDBMS?
Do you have the zebraqueue daemon running?
2) Sometimes new biblios would not be indexed for 20-30 minutes and other times Zebra indexes would need to be rebuilt to force indexing of new biblios. – Any suggestions for solving delayed indexing problem?
Do you have the zebraqueue daemon running?
3) When Zebra server is restarted Zebra directories are missing and must be restored. – How can server be restarted without deleting directories? Hmm ... that's very strange ... which make target did you use? standard, dev?
4) Today searching no longer works at all. Zebra server was restarted, missing directories were restored and indexes were rebuilt. Biblios and biblioitems are still in the database. – Any suggestions for restoring search function *without* reinstalling Zebra? i think we need to figure out why your zebra directories are disappearing ...
5) If we want to export the biblios and biblioitems (less than 25 at this time) in the database to create a backup file in case we need to do a total reinstall of Koha and Zebra are there any "gotchas" or best practices? The MARC data is stored as a blob in biblioitems, so you could just mysqldump that table ... there are also some utilities in the interface in Tools -> Export Bibliographic and Holdings Data; as well as some command line tools that do the same thing in misc/ directory.
So ... we need to figure out why your zebra configuration isn't working well, could you tell us a bit more about your environment? Also, I'd suggest we take this discussion to the koha-devel list where more of the technical questions tend to get hashed out (I've CCed your question to that list). Here's the list info: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS